On Sunday 23 March 2008 04:05:24 am Tero Mäntyvaara wrote:
> >> c) I want that standalone server receives LAN and internet mail of LAN
> >> users.
> >
> > When setting up exim, it'll ask you if you what range you want to act as
> > a smarthost for. Tell it your local network's information.
>
> Did
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 01:05:24PM +0200, Tero M?ntyvaara wrote:
>
> >You will also need to install some kind of POP or IMAP daemon to handle
> >this part.
> >
> What is/are the "default" POP and/or IMAP server(s) of the Debian etch?
There isn't a default POP or IMAP server, take your pick.
>
c) I want that standalone server receives LAN and internet mail of LAN
users.
When setting up exim, it'll ask you if you what range you want to act as a
smarthost for. Tell it your local network's information.
Did you mean range of IP addresses to act as a smarthost?
d) I want th
Paul Johnson wrote:
> Not by itself, no. You will need to install fetchmail, and each user
> will need to have a .fetchmailrc to fetch mail from another site.
You don't need one per user. I have a cron job run fetchmail as the user
"mailagent". Mailagent's .forward then runs Mailagent (could be
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:57:52 -0400
Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed March 19 2008, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Stop now!
> haven't started yet, just getting info/background/knowledge:)
>
> >
> > Setting up mail services by fumbling in the dark has the very real
> > potential to mak
On Wed March 19 2008, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Stop now!
haven't started yet, just getting info/background/knowledge:)
>
> Setting up mail services by fumbling in the dark has the very real
> potential to make your mail server a spam vector. Before continuing, I
> strongly reccommend, at the very le
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 10:48:04 pm Tero Mäntyvaara wrote:
> I think I should describe the situation of mine that I am dreaming of ;-).
>
> a) I have ADSL internet connection that has dynamic address and mail
> account by ISP. ISP is using some kind of port restriction for mail
> transfer to st
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 03/19/08 22:40, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 March 2008 01:25:35 am Tero Mäntyvaara wrote:
>> I have questions concerning usage of Exim4:
>> a) Can Exim4 be set so that it receives mail from mail accounts that
>> user has configured eg in his/her home directory?
>
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On 03/19/08 22:40, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 March 2008 01:25:35 am Tero Mäntyvaara wrote:
>> I have questions concerning usage of Exim4:
>> a) Can Exim4 be set so that it receives mail from mail accounts that
>> user has configured eg in h
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 06:17:54 am Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Wed March 19 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > Exim sends emails. It is MTA.
> >
> > And it receives email, too.
>
> ok, I admit it, I know nothing about setting up mail servers,etc..
Stop now!
Setting up mail services by fumbling in
On Wednesday 19 March 2008 01:25:35 am Tero Mäntyvaara wrote:
> I have questions concerning usage of Exim4:
> a) Can Exim4 be set so that it receives mail from mail accounts that
> user has configured eg in his/her home directory?
Not by itself, no. You will need to install fetchmail, and each us
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 09:17 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Wed March 19 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > Exim sends emails. It is MTA.
> >
> > And it receives email, too.
>
> ok, I admit it, I know nothing about setting up mail servers,etc..
> I have my own domain, and I have it hosted. What wo
On Wed March 19 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Exim sends emails. It is MTA.
>
> And it receives email, too.
ok, I admit it, I know nothing about setting up mail servers,etc..
I have my own domain, and I have it hosted. What would I need to run, besides
my kmail, to receive and send mail from my De
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On 03/19/08 05:22, Andrius Burlega wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 10:25 +0200, Tero Mäntyvaara wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have questions concerning usage of Exim4:
>> a) Can Exim4 be set so that it receives mail from mail accounts that
>> user has configure
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 10:25 +0200, Tero Mäntyvaara wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have questions concerning usage of Exim4:
> a) Can Exim4 be set so that it receives mail from mail accounts that
> user has configured eg in his/her home directory?
> b) Can Exim4 deliver that received mail in LAN?
>
>
> Tero
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:25:35AM +0200, Tero Mäntyvaara wrote:
>
> I have questions concerning usage of Exim4:
> a) Can Exim4 be set so that it receives mail from mail accounts that
> user has configured eg in his/her home directory?
Exim can receive email from any process or user on your syst
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:49:09 -0500, Celejar wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:24:14 + (UTC)
> Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Are there any problems with having more than one entry in my
>> "etc/exim4/passwd.client" file?
>
> see this thread for an account of some trouble I
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:24:14 + (UTC)
Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have located the following relevant info in
>
> "/usr/share/doc/exim4-config/README.Debian.gz":
>
>If you want to set up exim as SMTP AUTH client for delivery to your
>internet access provider's smartho
Brian Rosenberger wrote:
ldapuser:
driver = smartuser
local_parts = ${lookup
ldap{ldap://.xx:389/ou=SMTP%20Service,ou=Mailaccounts,dc=brutex,dc=n
et?([EMAIL PROTECTED])}{${local_part}}}
home_directory = ${lookup
ldap{ldap://.xx:389/ou=SMTP%20Service,ou=Mailaccounts,dc=brutex,dc=n
et?
* Benedict Verheyen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> If i understand correctly all of the above:
> 1. I could use exim on my server to relay all mail for me except to
> hotmail and yahoo.
> 2. I can setup everything at my isp's so that mail to my domain will be
> sent over to my pc.
>
I have exactly
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:34:26PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
>> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:17:58AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen said
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> i have configured exim 4 and it runs fine. I use the smarthost option
>> >> and thus send mails via my ISP. I was wondering if i could do
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:34:26PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:17:58AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen said
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> i have configured exim 4 and it runs fine. I use the smarthost option
> >> and thus send mails via my ISP. I was wondering if i could do the sam
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:17:58AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen said
>> Hi,
>>
>> i have configured exim 4 and it runs fine. I use the smarthost option
>> and thus send mails via my ISP. I was wondering if i could do the same
>> by NOT using the smarthost option and use my exim4 to do this?
>
> Yup,
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:17:58AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen said
>> Hi,
>>
>> i have configured exim 4 and it runs fine. I use the smarthost option
>> and thus send mails via my ISP. I was wondering if i could do the same
>> by NOT using the smarthost option and use my exim4 to do this?
>
> Yup,
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:17:58AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen said
> Hi,
>
> i have configured exim 4 and it runs fine. I use the smarthost option
> and thus send mails via my ISP. I was wondering if i could do the same
> by NOT using the smarthost option and use my exim4 to do this?
Yup, it's easy
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 09:04, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > As to why involve exim? You need an MTA installed for cron, etc,
> > anyway, so it may as well be exim.. And, although I've never tried to
> > set up fetchmail, some have said it was a wee bit more compl
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 03:04:42PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > anyway, so it may as well be exim.. And, although I've never tried to
> > set up fetchmail, some have said it was a wee bit more complicated than
> > exim, dunno about that..
>
> Are you saying
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As to why involve exim? You need an MTA installed for cron, etc,
> anyway, so it may as well be exim.. And, although I've never tried to
> set up fetchmail, some have said it was a wee bit more complicated than
> exim, dunno about that..
Are you saying you u
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:43:22AM -0500, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:39:18 +0100 Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > This seems very odd. I thought that Debian set up exim more or less by
> > default.
>
> It does, for _delivery_ of mail provided to it. The
Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:15:21PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:50:17PM +0100, Pat Colbeck wrote:
> > > > "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #fredsmith"
> > >
> > > Good to
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:15:21PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> The explanation was for fetchmail, not exim. And I still don't see
> how it would be a good idea to use exim to receive mail on a machine
> not usually connected to the Internet.
And I still fail to see how it matters. It's not th
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:15:21PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:50:17PM +0100, Pat Colbeck wrote:
> > > "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #fredsmith"
> >
> > Good to do it explicitly, but Exim will automatically
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:51:59 -0400 (EDT) Mark Carroll
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Then you're using fetchmail, not exim, to receive mail - it's just a
> > matter of terminology. (Of course, exim performs the local delivery
> > after'receiving'
Jamin W.Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:51:59 -0400 (EDT) Mark Carroll
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Then you're using fetchmail, not exim, to receive mail - it's just a
> > matter of terminology. (Of course, exim performs the local delivery
> > after'receiving' fr
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:51:59 -0400 (EDT) Mark Carroll
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Then you're using fetchmail, not exim, to receive mail - it's just a
> matter of terminology. (Of course, exim performs the local delivery
> after'receiving' from fetchmail - that's quite normal.)
Not necessarily,
On 15 Oct 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:39:18 +0100 Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > This seems very odd. I thought that Debian set up exim more or less by
> > default.
>
> It does, for _delivery_ of mail provided to it. The OP was looking for a
> sim
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, David wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
(snip)
> > Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to
> > receive mail on a machine that is not permanently connected to the
> > Internet (unless you really know what you're
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> > Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to
> > receive mail on a machine that is not permanently connected to the
> > Internet (unless you really know what you're doing).
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This seems very odd. I thought that Debian set up exim more or less by
> default.
Yes, that is because you need _some_ program at least for local mail
delivery (system messages and such), although you don't really need a
full-featured MTA (mail tran
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:39:18 +0100 Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> This seems very odd. I thought that Debian set up exim more or less by
> default.
It does, for _delivery_ of mail provided to it. The OP was looking for a
simple way to deliver and sort mail to local boxes for (pr
David wrote:
>
> > There is support for multiple user mailboxes controlled by prefixes or
> > suffixes on the user name, either via the filter mechanism or through
> i> multiple .forward files.
>
> Exim (or at least 3.35) can distribute mail to different mailboxes. If
> I understand som
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Exim (or at least 3.35) can distribute mail to different mailboxes. If
> > I understand some of the posters in this thread, they have stated that
> > you cannot, but this is what I'm doing.
>
On 15 Oct 2002, Mark Carroll wrote:
> On 15 Oct 2002, Jens Grivolla wrote:
>
> > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> > > > Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to
> > > > receive mail on a m
Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:50:17PM +0100, Pat Colbeck wrote:
> > "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #fredsmith"
>
> Good to do it explicitly, but Exim will automatically deliver using
> procmail if you have a ~/.procmailrc
The explanation was f
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:50:17PM +0100, Pat Colbeck wrote:
> "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #fredsmith"
Good to do it explicitly, but Exim will automatically deliver using
procmail if you have a ~/.procmailrc
> :0
> * ^TO_.*[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> debian-user/
I think it's general
Mark Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 15 Oct 2002, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> > When did what change?
>
> That you need to really know what you're doing to use exim to receive mail
> on a machine that is not permanently connected to the Internet, I'd guess,
> Paul's implication presumably be
On 15 Oct 2002, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> > > Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to
> > > receive mail on a machine that is not permanently connected to the
>
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> > Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to
> > receive mail on a machine that is not permanently connected to the
> > Internet (unless you really know what you're
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote:
> Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to
> receive mail on a machine that is not permanently connected to the
> Internet (unless you really know what you're doing).
Really? When did this change? I've been
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Exim (or at least 3.35) can distribute mail to different mailboxes. If
> I understand some of the posters in this thread, they have stated that
> you cannot, but this is what I'm doing.
Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to
receiv
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, David wrote:
(snip)
> Exim (or at least 3.35) can distribute mail to different mailboxes. If
> I understand some of the posters in this thread, they have stated that
> you cannot, but this is what I'm doing. You will find this info in the
> file "filter.txt.gz" in /usr/share
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:01:46PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote:
> Does exim allow the config. of simple mail delivery
> on the following system?:
>
> -One mashine, connected tmp. to the internet
> -one user with only one email adress and
> who likes to have his incoming mail sorted as:
>
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:01:46 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilhelm
Land) wrote:
> Does exim allow the config. of simple mail delivery
> on the following system?:
>
> -One mashine, connected tmp. to the internet
> -one user with only one email adress and
> who likes to have his incoming mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilhelm Land) writes:
> Jens Grivolla wrote:
> > The "only one email address" part makes me think you really want to
> > poll an external mailbox using POP3 or IMAP. Exim does not have
> > anything to do with this, you need to use fetchmail or a MUA that does
> > it. F
Jens Grivolla wrote:
>
> So you want to _receive_ mail with exim on a machine that is only
> temporarily connected to the internet?
>
> This is possible if you know what you're doing (and have a permanently
> connected machine elsewhere that relays to you). However, it does not
> really look li
I think what you really need is fetchmail and procmail I am afraid. But
not to worry a basic setup is not too difficult.
Fetchmail
To get your mail from a pop3 account create a .fetchmailrc in your home
directory that looks like this
defaults proto pop3
set daemon 120
poll somemailserver.bigis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilhelm Land) writes:
> Does exim allow the config. of simple mail delivery
> on the following system?:
>
> -One mashine, connected tmp. to the internet
> -one user with only one email adress and
> who likes to have his incoming mail sorted as:
> +one inbox for eac
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:21:45AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:43:46PM +1000, Geoff Crompton wrote:
> >Is it possible to configure exim on homepc to use dially as a smart
> >relay, and to continually poll dially (say every 5 minutes) to try
> >and deliver
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 01:43:46PM +1000, Geoff Crompton wrote:
>Is it possible to configure exim on homepc to use dially as a smart
>relay, and to continually poll dially (say every 5 minutes) to try
>and deliver email? It could be almost a week between times that
>dially actually
Seeing as there are some people around here that seem to understand
exim, I thought that I'd try and sort out an answer to something at
home.
I have a simple network like this:
|
| dialup
|dially|-|homepc|
LAN
On 09 Sep 2002, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > Or what is the favoured way for a dialup machine to send mails from
> > > within mutt?
> >
> > In /etc/ip-up.d/exim I have the following line:
> >
> If you mean /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim, I have got that already, but only
> exim -
Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > Or what is the favoured way for a dialup machine to send mails from
> > within mutt?
>
> In /etc/ip-up.d/exim I have the following line:
>
If you mean /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim, I have got that already, but only
exim -qf. I'll add a second f to it.
> /usr/sbin/exim -qff
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 09:49:00AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> Hi List
>
> Some weeks ago I switched from kmail to mutt/exim. At first I did not
> realize that exim did not deliver several e-mails, some to the list, and
> some private ones. I saw using "exim -bs -bp", that those mails are
> ma
On 09 Sep 2002, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> Hi List
>
> Some weeks ago I switched from kmail to mutt/exim. At first I did not
> realize that exim did not deliver several e-mails, some to the list, and
> some private ones. I saw using "exim -bs -bp", that those mails are
> marked '*** frozen ***'. I
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:55:17PM +0100, Arnout Engelen wrote:
:Are you nagging your ISP's system administrator?
:
:I just found out that my exim.conf has the line:
:qualify_domain = sci.kun.nl
:
:which has the effect that every mail sent to 'root' (for example the
:output of cron jobs, etcetera)
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:55:17PM +0100, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> I don't know how that line got there, but it never hurts to check
> what's in your exim.conf!
The line was put there when you ran eximconfig and told it that your
mail should appear to be coming from your schhol's domain.
The way t
Arnout Engelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 19/01/2001 (11:57) :
> I don't know how that line got there, but it never hurts to check
> what's in your exim.conf!
When you run the exim setup script you get some choices for the setup
and one of them is some smart host or rather. I did the same mistak
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