Re: Exim sendmail faults

Chris Hewitt wrote: > >>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...) > > > One quick test is to set up an email client (Netscape whatever) to talk > to sympatico's smtp server directly (leaving out your exim server). If > you can send mail from this then permissions to send are OK, and we look > around the Exim configuration. I have several Windows machines behind the firewall too which are able to do this so it must be Exim's configuration. > >>You may have to configure exim to use sympatico's SMTP server. (It's been > >>so long since I've done that I forget how, and it was a real trial and > >>error approach.) > >> > >I don't think I have to use their SMTP server. My old one (which used > >Sendmail itself rather than Exim) was set up to act as it's own > >SMTP server and worked well. I wish it hadn't been hacked *cries* > > > True, but you will need one that allows you to connect. As I'm on a > dialup line here, I use my isp's servers in case I'm not on line > (receiving) and to save me the time in connecting directly to the > recipient (sending). As you are behind a firewall, your host name will > probably not be resolvable and that may have a problem. I think my host does resolve properly because if you type www.cell.dhs.org into a web browser from an external machine it brings up the default web page on my server. > I suggest you > try setting your isp's smtp server as the smart-host (sendmail term, > don't know what exim calls it) and give it a try. Ok, I'll try that out when I get home. > If you used to use > sendmail, do you still have the working sendmail.cf file? If so that > will give you most of the information you need. I may still have it. I'll have to check. thx for the help!