Re: Exim sendmail faults

Miles Thompson wrote: > > Liam, > > Is "anydomain.ca" in exim's configuration file? Where did that come from? I put "anydomain.ca" because if I try to mail any domain it fails. I was using "sympatico.ca" when I was doing my testing. I don't think I have any domains expilicitly in the exim configuration file (I thought I had it configured to send to any domain but I'll have to look into this a bit more before giving a complete answer). > And, you probably know much more about this than I do, but did you try > those little validation exercises in exim's setup guide? No, I didn't even know they were there. Can you point me to the web page they are on? > I assume exim > let's you send mail to yourself on the same box. Yes, if I mail to a user on that box it works but I suspect that that is because exim is smart enough to just stuff it directly to that user's box rather than sending it out for a world trip. > This ain't much help - Miles Sure it is! If I take 100 small steps I'll get the equivalent of one big step! ttyl. > At 02:21 PM 7/4/2002 -0400, Liam Gibbs wrote: > >Miles Thompson wrote: > > > Unfortunately I discarded the earlier messages, so I don't know what your > > > error is. > > > >When I try to send an email I get: > >unrouteable mail domain "anydomain.ca" > > > >I can resend you the full error messages if you want. > > > > > Do you have a fixed IP or do you have something like the Mpowered service > > > where you're behind sympatico's NAT server? > > > >I have a fixed IP address. My BSD box is using NAT to port forward > >to the web server which sits behind it. > > > > > Can you use exim to send mail from the console? Is sympatcio allowing this? > > > >Sympatico allows it but I can't do it (I used to have another > >box that did this but it got hacked and pretty much destroyed...) > > <snipped> > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.