Jeff Abrahamson on 26 Jul 2005 22:58:18 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] exim4 and local delivery


On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 06:35:58PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
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> You are mixing apples and oranges a little here.  The problem is not
> between mutt and exim, the problem is between mutt and a spam blocking
> acl on craigslist.  If mutt works, let it be.  If you want to cat a
> message into exim, though, I think you want exim -ti or something.  It's
> been a little while, but it's basically the same as the sendmail command
> line when using it in an open(MAIL, |sendmail -ti) script setting.

Yeah, I was just trying to figure out how to watch the smtp
transaction.  I'm still a bit mystified about how mutt is doing the
hand-off to exim4.  But I care slightly less now that I sent my
message to craigslist. ;-)


> It seems the hostname issues have been sorted out, so now reload exim
> and run /usr/sbin/exim4 -bP primary_hostname to make sure exim has
> noticed the change.  I don't believe the debian maintainers set it, so
> it should just pick it up from gethostbyname() and do the right thing.

Yup, that works.

    astra:/etc/exim4# exim4 -bP primary_hostname
    primary_hostname = astra.purple.com
    astra:/etc/exim4# 

Thanks very much for your help.

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 Jeff

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