Help With Exim Mailer

[Toby Fisher]

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Rejean Proulx wrote:

> I need help badly.  I can get exim to send external mail.  I can't mail
> anything to my local address like rejean at interfree.ca.  It won't receive any
> mail from anyone.  I have the IP
> 192.168.1.0/24 and 192.168.2.0/24 set up  In the log it thinks I am using
> 192.168.1.1  I wonder if that has anything to do with it?  Here is part of
> the log.  I need expert help.  At least someone who is more of an expert
> than I am, which might not be hard.
> 

Ok, did you take my advice and read the chapter about testing your exim 
configuration?  If you had done so you'd have found thi problem before 
trying it on live email.  It looks like you might need to check the 
permitions on /var/spool/mail and assosciated files, either that or run 
the deliveries as mail as shown in the relevant transport; the config file 
should help you here.

I cannot say strongly enough how important it is that you know what you 
are doing before setting up such a system, as if you are not careful you 
could end up loosing your email and that of any users you might have, and 
also get yourself into trouble if you have not properly secured your 
server against attack such as ensuring that it is not an open mail relay.

Cheers.

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