Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:20:33 -0500 From: Kevin Havener <kevin.havener@afccc.af.mil> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exim question and /etc/hosts question Message-ID: <38B6F221.98CECB06@afccc.af.mil> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002231122070.22879-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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Ben Smithurst gave me the right answer for this. Thanks Ben, I can't
believe it was so simple. As much as I looked at the exim configure
file, I can't believe I couldn't figure this one out myself after a
week!
Works like a charm now. Now that I've spent so much time with exim, I
kind of like it. Still don't know what bugs cvsup and why changing the
/etc/hosts file changes its behavior.
====================== Ben's answer ============================
>
> I use fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP, but exim won't deliver it to
> my local user(s). In /var/spool/exim/msglog I see this kind of stuff:
>
>> 2000-02-22 09:24:41 havo@localhost: routing deferred: retry time not reached
>> 2000-02-22 09:54:41 havo@localhost: lookuphost router deferred: host lookup
>> did not complete
add "localhost" to local_domains.
=======================End Ben's answer==========================
Steve Hovey wrote:
>
> Do you have a localhost entry in your /etc/hosts file?
>
Not a player in the exim problem, but...
Yes, changing it from: 127.0.0.1 localhost #cvsup fails, sendmail
worked fine
to: 127.0.0.1 freebsd localhost #cvsup worked,
sendmail stalled
Haven't experimented yet to see how exim peforms on boot-up with the
cvsup-friendly /etc/hosts yet.
Thanks for the responses guys,
Kevin Havener
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