sk8r-365 wrote:
> Debian Etch
>
> I goofed up my exim4 config... even after reading man pages and
> Goggle'ing - go figure!
>
> Sent a mail to my user from my user with mutt and this is the header
> (I've changed names and domain to protect privacy on this post):
>
> Envelope-to: linux_user_name@my_real_ISP
> Delivery-date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:44:20 -0700
> To: my_username <linux_user_name@my_real_ISP>
> Subject: testing 0
> From: my_username <my_real_username_for_ISP@my_real_ISP>
>

Without being able to see your exim.conf file, it's going to be hard to
tell you exactly what is wrong with it. It sounds like, during the
configuration stage, you specified your real user name for your ISP
somewhere. The quick and easy way to fix this would be to run:

dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

This will re-run the configuration for exim.


> What I was trying to do is send and receive an internal mail from my
> username to my username.

You can easily configure exim to do this during the configuration of it
using the command I specified above.


> Next step, after this is straitened out, is
> send from local to smpt and receive from pop3 to local.

Keep in mind that exim is an MTA and only supports SMTP. POP3 is a
totally different protocol. If I'm reading this correctly, you're
trying to run your own mail server. It's not too hard to configure exim
(again, using the command I gave you above) to relay mail through a
smarthost (your ISPs' SMTP server). The command above will walk you
right through that, for the most part, but if your ISPs' SMTP server
requires authentication (most don't if they recognize you're behind
their domain), you may need to do some manual tweaking.

- Ken