Hey everyone:

For some reason, understanding how to run a for-fun email server is beyond me. So, I'm trying to get this configured one step at a time. I find some tutorials online that say..."Yeah, just setup exim, fetchmail, squirrelmail, courier-imap, and spamassassin and you're almost there!" That sounds like a lot to me. So...I'm starting small. First things first, I want to get exim working with courier-imap.

Here is my setup, then I will show the errors I'm getting:

Debain Testing exim courier-imap Timewarner cable mdg.homelinux.org pointing from dyndns.org to my server.

Here is a snip of my exim conf. (the parts that seem relevant) ===== host_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1 : ::::1 host_auth_accept_relay = * local_delivery: driver = appendfile group = mail mode = 0660 mode_fail_narrower = false envelope_to_add = true return_path_add = true #file = /var/mail/${local_part} directory=${home}/Maildir maildir_format = true prefix="" ===================

My /etc/login.defs file has: QMAIL_DIR Maildir/ #MAIL_DIR MAIL_FILE Maildir/

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And my /etc/pam.d file has: session optional pam_mail.so standard noenv dir=~/Maildir

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In my home dir, I have a .forward with: ~/Maildir

I also have a folder called Maildir with mdg:mail ownership.

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Now, when I log into mutt, and send a test mail somewhere, it works just fine. Comes from mdg@mdg.homelinux.org. When I try to mail back, I get this header: ----- Message header follows -----

Received: by 10.11.98.52 with SMTP id v52mr399875cwb; Mon, 04 Oct 2004 08:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.11.98.53 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 08:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: ed8871fe04100408471c08b76b@mail.gmail.com Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:47:12 -0500 From: Matt Graham gerter@gmail.com Reply-To: Matt Graham gerter@gmail.com To: Matt Graham mdg@mdg.homelinux.org Subject: Re: Testing In-Reply-To: 20041004154344.GA3243@mdg.homelinux.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: 20041004154344.GA3243@mdg.homelinux.org ========================

And I see this in my exim log:

2004-10-05 13:08:02 Start queue run: pid=5976 2004-10-05 13:08:02 1CEnRF-0001Pe-00 == ~/Maildir/@mdg.homelinux.org mdg@mdg.homelinux.org directing defer (-41): retry time not reached 2004-10-05 13:08:02 1CEXlE-000104-00 == ~/Maildir/@mdg.homelinux.org mdg@mdg.homelinux.org directing defer (-41): retry time not reached 2004-10-05 13:08:02 1CEXfM-0000zL-00 == ~/Maildir/@mdg.homelinux.org mdg@mdg.homelinux.org directing defer (-41): retry time not reached 2004-10-05 13:08:02 1CEXIh-0000xp-00 == ~/Maildir/@mdg.homelinux.org mdg@localhost directing defer (-41): retry time not reached 2004-10-05 13:08:02 1CEXIg-0000xp-00 == ~/Maildir/@mdg.homelinux.org mdg@localhost directing defer (-41): retry time not reached 2004-10-05 13:08:02 1CEXcW-0000zA-00 == ~/Maildir/@mdg.homelinux.org mdg@mdg.homelinux.org directing defer (-41): retry time not reached 2004-10-05 13:08:02 End queue run: pid=5976

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My mail never gets delivered to ~/Maildir. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?

Sorry for the huge email...just trying to give as much info as possible.

Matt