Re: exim4 question

2008-12-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,20.Dec.08, 16:28:20, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > In this specific case, the same result should have been possible by > reconfiguring the exim4-config. Perhaps specifying the option to ask all > questions, not only those that would be shown with the default priority. Just for the archive

Re: exim4 question

2008-12-20 Thread lostson
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 01:47:19PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sat December 20 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > Uninstalling and then reinstalling software is so... Windows-ish. > > some of us, that aren't quite the guru that you are, may not know where all > the config files are for

Re: exim4 question

2008-12-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat December 20 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Uninstalling and then reinstalling software is so... Windows-ish. some of us, that aren't quite the guru that you are, may not know where all the config files are for any particular app. purging is easy, and it doesn't miss any config files.

Re: exim4 question

2008-12-20 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Paul Cartwright wrote: > so you just got rid of your borked config, reinstalled, and went through the > wizard, knowing more info this time.. > > good job! I have been using purge more and more.. when I have to reinstall > something. Uninstalling and then reinstalling software is so... Windows-i

Re: exim4 question

2008-12-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat December 20 2008, lostson wrote: > > >  I tried doing that and for some reason it didnt work, not sure why. I > > > tried a few other things i found online and now everything is working > > > great, thanks alot for your help > > > > maybe you could share what you found, so others might benef

Re: exim4 question

2008-12-20 Thread lostson
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:18:35AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sat December 20 2008, lostson wrote: > > > First, try sending mail to yourself at your local box address.  Exim > > > should make the appropriate /var/mail/$USER when it sends the mail. > > > Your first time sending, mutt will te

Re: exim4 question

2008-12-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat December 20 2008, lostson wrote: > > First, try sending mail to yourself at your local box address.  Exim > > should make the appropriate /var/mail/$USER when it sends the mail. > > Your first time sending, mutt will tell you that it doesn't exit, which > > is OK. > > > > Doug. > >  I tried

Re: exim4 question

2008-12-20 Thread lostson
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:19:47AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:11:01AM -0600, lostson wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 14:05 +, Sam Kuper wrote: > > > 2008/12/20 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI : > > > > lostson wrote: > > > >> Hello > > > >> I have perused the docs for ex

Re: exim4 question

2008-12-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:11:01AM -0600, lostson wrote: > On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 14:05 +, Sam Kuper wrote: > > 2008/12/20 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI : > > > lostson wrote: > > >> Hello > > >> I have perused the docs for exim but cannot seem to find the exim for > > >> dummies section. I want to use

Re: exim4 question

2008-12-20 Thread lostson
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 14:05 +, Sam Kuper wrote: > 2008/12/20 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI : > > lostson wrote: > >> Hello > >> I have perused the docs for exim but cannot seem to find the exim for > >> dummies section. I want to use mutt and when i send i want to use my > >> providers smtp server but

Re: exim4 question

2008-12-20 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/12/20 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI : > lostson wrote: >> Hello >> I have perused the docs for exim but cannot seem to find the exim for >> dummies section. I want to use mutt and when i send i want to use my >> providers smtp server but cannot seem to find the correct section to >> edit and set this

Re: exim4 question

2008-12-20 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
lostson wrote: > Hello > I have perused the docs for exim but cannot seem to find the exim for > dummies section. I want to use mutt and when i send i want to use my > providers smtp server but cannot seem to find the correct section to > edit and set this up. I do not need to setup an entire mai

exim4 question

2008-12-20 Thread lostson
Hello I have perused the docs for exim but cannot seem to find the exim for dummies section. I want to use mutt and when i send i want to use my providers smtp server but cannot seem to find the correct section to edit and set this up. I do not need to setup an entire mail server. Could anyone po

Re: exim4 question

2006-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:55:36AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Casey T. Deccio wrote: > >On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:12 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>>Is your smarthost config working otherwise? if so, just alias root to > >>>'real-' > >>> > >>It isn't. I want to use mail to send email and als

Re: exim4 question

2006-04-12 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 10:55 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Casey T. Deccio wrote: > > What happens when you run: > > > > exim4 -bt root > > > /home/hugoTue Apr 11-10:51:14HDC3# exim4 -bt root > R: smarthost for [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >router = smarthost, transport = remote_smt

Re: exim4 question

2006-04-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Casey T. Deccio wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:12 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Is your smarthost config working otherwise? if so, just alias root to 'real-' It isn't. I want to use mail to send email and also get local crontab stuff. What happens when you run: exim4 -bt root /home/hu

Re: exim4 question

2006-04-11 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:12 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Is your smarthost config working otherwise? if so, just alias root to > > 'real-' > > > > It isn't. I want to use mail to send email and also get local crontab stuff. > What happens when you run: exim4 -bt root -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: exim4 question

2006-04-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Clymer wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 06:39 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I use exim4 for MTA and find its config counter-intuitive. No doubt my intuition finally(?) went haywire. Questions: 1. How do you tell it to clear the queue and forget about all messages? And where is that qu

Re: exim4 question

2006-04-09 Thread Marcus Libäck
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 07:29:52PM -0400, David Clymer wrote: > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 06:39 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > doing this should remove all the messages from your queue (untested): > > # for x in `exim4 -bp | awk '/^[0-9]/ { print $3 }'`; do exim4 -Mrm $x; done > > exim4 queue stu

Re: exim4 question

2006-04-09 Thread David Clymer
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 06:39 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I use exim4 for MTA and find its config counter-intuitive. > > No doubt my intuition finally(?) went haywire. > > Questions: > > 1. How do you tell it to clear the queue and forget about all messages? > And where is that queue

exim4 question

2006-04-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I use exim4 for MTA and find its config counter-intuitive. No doubt my intuition finally(?) went haywire. Questions: 1. How do you tell it to clear the queue and forget about all messages? And where is that queue anyway? 2. How do you tell the thing that when I use mail to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Exim4 question

2004-06-24 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-06-24, David Baron penned: > Can I configure this to sit on external email accounts? If so, how? I don't understand the question ... > > If another program such a fetchmail is required, how would these be > set up to work together? > > (Documentation and a linux-administrator's howto were

Exim4 question

2004-06-24 Thread David Baron
Can I configure this to sit on external email accounts? If so, how? If another program such a fetchmail is required, how would these be set up to work together? (Documentation and a linux-administrator's howto were murky at best.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject