dman, hi,
mutt! good grief.
EXIM
I ran eximconfig again, correctly, and am sure there is no problem
there.
> The "visible" mail name of your system should be the same as "echo
> $HOST". Don't worry about it too much, just don't pick the name
> of your ISP (or some other real server).
looking at set i have no $HOST so gave hephaestus which is the
machine name (I have $HOSTNAME which is perhaps what you meant?)
> When you get to the question
> Which machine will act as the smarthost and handle outgoing mail?
> this is where you enter in the name of your ISP's SMTP server.
> ("imail.imaginet.co.za" according to what you wrote farther down)
OK, in Windows Pegasus this is entered as both my SMTP and POP3 host
so sounds OK
> What you did before was tell exim that "imaginet.co.za" was the
> name of your machine. Thus when you tried to send mail to
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" it wanted to deliver it locally but couldn't find the
> user 'foo'.
Understood.
> Get exim to work, then mutt will work. mutt doesn't do SMTP
> because
I presume this will now be the case.
FETCHMAIL
> First you need to tell mutt which host. Edit ~/.muttrc for that.
> Instead I use fetchmail for retrieving the mail.
OK, then that will be good enough for me, fetchmail seems to be the standard
anyway.
I wrote the .fetchmailrc file. Then I wondered where to put it.
The /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/sample.rc file states
1. put in your home directory (ie. /home/ian)
2. permissions should not be greater than -rw------- (0600)
this is what i have done, but as I wrote it from root, I have done a
chown to change it to my ownership as there was a complaint that i
did not own it.
Now, when I run fetchmail from user ian i get
POP# connection to imail.imaginet.co.za failed: temporary name
server error fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
mutt sill says "POP host is not defined" when I try and send the
mail.
(and wvdial has decided to get no response from the modem, but
minicom sees it! I'll sort that out this week )
> There is an internal arrangement, but it is not obvious just by
> seeing some program names.
OK, so in mutt I can send the mail, but how do I get it. Does this
automatically get done at the same time or do I have to run
fetchmail and dial in a second time to have this done? How, with
diald (or wvdial) + mutt + exim + fetchmail do I make the process of
sending and collecting mail from imaginet a simple one-time
operation?
With diald running something must fire this up automagically on
demand.
> Do you have a login on the server? My school runs Solaris, so I
> just log in to that machine and do all my mail there instead of on
> my debian box. If you use fetchmail, it won't give you the IMAP
> benefit of server-side folders. mutt has some support for IMAP,
> but I've never used it.
I am not sure that I understand you here. I log in from the
computer at home or I carry it home and then do it there. I am
going to use one dedicated address on the linux box to start off
with and get going with just personal email (family around the
globe).
Ian Balchin
Grahamstown, South Africa.
