Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:17:30 -0500 From: Kevin Havener <kevin.havener@afccc.af.mil> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Exim question and /etc/hosts question Message-ID: <38B4081A.F6E14EE4@afccc.af.mil>
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If no one can anwer this, I'll take it to the exim mailing list. 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 >2000-02-22 10:24:41 havo@localhost: routing deferred: retry time not reached >2000-02-22 10:54:41 havo@localhost: lookuphost router deferred: host lookup > did not complete >2000-02-22 11:24:41 havo@localhost: routing deferred: retry time not reached >2000-02-22 11:54:41 havo@localhost: lookuphost router deferred: host lookup > did not complete >2000-02-22 12:24:41 havo@localhost: routing deferred: retry time not reached >2000-02-22 12:54:41 havo@localhost: lookuphost router deferred: host lookup > did not complete >2000-02-22 13:24:41 havo@localhost: routing deferred: retry time not reached >2000-02-22 13:54:41 havo@localhost: routing deferred: retry time not reached >2000-02-22 14:24:41 havo@localhost: routing deferred: retry time not reached >2000-02-22 14:54:42 havo@localhost: routing deferred: retry time not reached >2000-02-22 15:24:43 havo@localhost: routing deferred: retry time not reached Obviously exim is trying to use it's "lookuphost" router to deliver the mail I've just fetched, but it can't do the DNS lookup or something. Can anyone clue me in on the nuances here? I've attempted to grok the exim docs, the exim FAQs, and I even have a working Debian setup to compare to. The Debian setup uses a different version of exim, but it's the same standalone box using my ISP as a smart host. I don't use things like FQDNs on either box, one is just named debian and the other is freebsd. My mail goes out fine, and fetches fine--I can see it in /var/mail/somethingorother--it just doesn't get delivered to my user mailbox. I'm using exim 3.13 on my freebsd box, and I'm using an minimally modified version of /usr/local/etc/exim/configure.sample as my configuration file. Of course the vast version difference between the old Debian exim and the new FreeBSD exim preclude just copying the debian configuration file to the freebsd one. Tried that...two steps backward, no steps forward! It may be related to poor configuration on my part. I have this cvsup problem where if I have in my /etc/hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost cvsup can't find it's local host name and dies. If I put this in /etc/hosts/ 127.0.0.1 freebsd localhost #can't remember the order here cvsup works fine. In this case though sendmail delayed the bootup trying to do a DNS lookup. I've since ditched sendmail because despite the handbook and Lehey's book, I could not get it to send mail out to the smarthost. I thought surely I could mimic my successful Debian/exim setup ;-). In a larger, more philosophical sense, is there a more straightforward way to use FreeBSD as a home email device? Exim, sendmail and friends seem to be overkill for my case. I guess I need the functionality of Netscape messenger without all the gewgaws. I've never used Pine or its ilk except with sendmail or exim running in the background. Would any of these function as standalone poppers/MTAs. Suggestions or thoughts along these lines are welcome, too, as are RTFMs--just point me to the right FM. Kevin What should be in the /etc/hosts file in my rather trivial setup of a standalone box attached intermittently to the internet via dialup? I can't remember whether I've attempted to mess with this in my current exim flailing around To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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