Re: setting up exim

2003-01-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:32:50PM -0800, Harmohan Bhamra wrote: > I am trying to setup exim, to send and receive for a single tld domain on > debian woody. > > I want users to authenticate to /etc/shadow over ssl if possible. > > The users are using Outlook or Outlook express or squirrelmail (w

setting up exim

2003-01-24 Thread Harmohan Bhamra
Hi I am trying to setup exim, to send and receive for a single tld domain on debian woody. I want users to authenticate to /etc/shadow over ssl if possible. The users are using Outlook or Outlook express or squirrelmail (web based mail) Currently I have installed exim-tls. However when the us

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-02 Thread Michael Olds
Carel, Again thanks. I followed your instructions and all tests indicate Exim is up and running just fine. To finish this part of let's double check on ownership and protections. It should be like this: owner: userme group: mail protection: -rw-rw user: read, write

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 06:09:07AM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: > Good morning Carel, > > Live on the East Coast? nah, I'm living in the Netherlands (Europe), but I've strange sleeping habits:) > Thank you again for your careful attention to this! I have followed your > instructions and the outpu

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-02 Thread Michael Olds
Good morning Carel, Live on the East Coast? I use my W2KPro box as my workstation (On which I am reasonably competant -- I code html using TextPad which has no equal on Linux; and I watch the stockmarket using MetaStock charting), and I am reciving mail for this list on the Windows box. The two

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-02 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:35:37PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: > Carel: > > OK! I ran ls -l... with these results: > > mail 0 datedrafts > 0 inbox > 840 sentmail > 1613trash > > I looked in the trash directory and there was nothi

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
, not what is in /var/mail/userme -Original Message- From: Carel Fellinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:23 PM To: Debian-User@Lists. Debian. Org Subject: Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail) On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 07:41:39PM -0700

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
Carel, ls -1 /var/mail/userme ~userme/mail gives me a list of what is in /home/userme/Mail nothing like a number indicating how many mails, etc. Same same when i do ls -1 /var/mail/userme /home/userme/Mail and ls -1 /var/mail/userme /var/mail/userme I was mistaken about the permissions for /va

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:45:37PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: ... > One other thing: I noticed the word 'smarthost' in the log file > entries you posted on this. Does you use a smarthost or not? nah, that was an example log snipped from *me*, not from Michael -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUB

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
log and it looked to me like I was getting mail. -Original Message- From: Shyamal Prasad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 7:46 PM To: Debian-User@Lists. Debian. Org Subject: Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail) "Michael" ==

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
Hello, now Stephen and Carel, I checked again and /var/mai/userme is user userme group mail the settings for /etc/exim/exim.conf are: Local_delivery driver = appendfile group = mail mode = 0660 mode_fail_narrower = false envelope_to_add = true return_path_add = true file = /var/spool/mail/${loc

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
Stephen, These are the settings I have in Kmail (I have tried multiple variations) name: userme location: /var/mail/userme checked: Procmail locfile /var/mail/userme.lock I also tried: location: /home/userme/Mail and Mail/ nada Best Wishes! Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Michael" == Michael Olds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Anyone have an idea as to what I should dig into next to Michael> get this up? Hi Mike, Could you share the DNS name used for the MX record with us (i.e the world known email address served by this exim host)? If you'd p

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michael Olds said: > Stephen, > Thank you for this reply. Answers to your questions below your questions: > ls -l /var/mail/$USER will tell you if there's any mail there (if it > has a nonzero size, you do.) If there's mail there, then the problem > is the setup of y

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:05:03AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > user root? Gid? e bit? Are You using maildirs? > I think even for maildirs the owner of /var/mail/userme should be userme Moreover when the owner is root, it's highly unlikely that a mer userme will be able to read it. So ch

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michael Olds said: > > > I have Exim set up. I believe it is set up properly as I used the > > > defaults mostly. I can send mail from my Linux box, but I cannot > > > receive mail, either internally or from the outside. The log > > > indicates that mail is being > >

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
Stephen, Thank you for this reply. Answers to your questions below your questions: -Original Message- From: Stephen Gran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 6:16 PM To: Debian-User@Lists. Debian. Org Subject: Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:02:00PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: ... > You say you've used the defaults during exim install/setup. Did you > choose the "Internet site" or "Satellite" or... > > So "Internet" or what was the #1 choice. yep, that's "Internet site". The proper general choice for what

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michael Olds said: > Hello, > > Exim on Woody > > Trying again here, I posted on Friday afternoon and by Saturday I knew there > wasn't a hope of my request for help being seen. > > At this point I have again run out of possible solutions: > > I have Exim set up. I

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
Carel, No problem replying off list, and thank you for replying, period, I have two machines one Windows 2000 Pro and one Linux. I will answer your questions, below your questions below: [ sorry for sending this offlist too, but as you have email problems I'm not s

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
[ sorry for sending this offlist too, but as you have email problems I'm not sure list trafic will reach you. If it does, pray tell and I wil adjust ] On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:47:48PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: ... > I have Exim set up. I believe it is set up properly as I used the defaults

Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

2002-10-01 Thread Michael Olds
Hello, Exim on Woody Trying again here, I posted on Friday afternoon and by Saturday I knew there wasn't a hope of my request for help being seen. At this point I have again run out of possible solutions: I have Exim set up. I believe it is set up properly as I used the defaults mostly. I can

Setting up exim: was Setting up Sendmail

2002-09-28 Thread Michael Olds
Hello, Not because I gave up on Sendmail, but because of another problem (for some reason (I believe it had to do with uninstalling Sendmail which I did in order to start from scratch and install the package from source) when I shut down and restarted, Apache was unavailable, all the files are in

Re: [SAtalk] Re: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-31 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 07:58, Phillip Deackes wrote: > Since I use Sylpheed, which stores mail in the mh-style format, is there > any way to get Exim to file messages in this way? I know procmail can do > it, but can Exim? Not directly - Mh format is a real hack (basically because of the sequences

Re: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-30 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:35:41 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, as for not getting X-Spam-Status, take a (real) message in a file > (call it "msg"). What does : > > $ cat msg | spamc -f | grep -i spam > > output? It should outupt the X-Spam headers and the SPAM: report (if > there was

Re: [SAtalk] Re: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-29 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:35:41 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, as for not getting X-Spam-Status, take a (real) message in a file > (call it "msg"). What does : > > $ cat msg | spamc -f | grep -i spam > > output? It should outupt the X-Spam headers and the SPAM: report (if > there was

Re: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-29 Thread dman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 07:58:18AM +, Phillip Deackes wrote: | On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:52:11 -0500 | >dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: | > | > have just whipped up some documentation regarding setting up exim | > and spamassassin. Basically I just outlined my

Re: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-29 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:52:11 -0500 >dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > have just whipped up some documentation regarding setting up exim > and spamassassin. Basically I just outlined my setup, which Works For > Me :-). Thanks dman. I have set it all up as yo

Re: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-27 Thread Wayne Topa
dman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I have just whipped up some documentation regarding setting up exim > and spamassassin. Basically I just outlined my setup, which Works For > Me :-). > > Check it out if you are interested, > http://dman.ddts.

RE: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-26 Thread Jeremy L. Gaddis
n-user@lists.debian.org; exim-users@exim.org; spamassassin-talk@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin I have just whipped up some documentation regarding setting up exim and spamassassin. Basically I just outlined my setup, which Works For Me :-). Check it

Re: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-26 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 12:55:01AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | On Saturday 26 January 2002 9:53 pm, dman wrote: | > I have just whipped up some documentation regarding setting up exim | > and spamassassin. Basically I just outlined my

Re: announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-26 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 26 January 2002 9:53 pm, dman wrote: > I have just whipped up some documentation regarding setting up exim > and spamassassin. Basically I just outlined my setup, which Works For > Me :-). > > Check it out if you

announcing documentation on setting up exim with spamassasin

2002-01-26 Thread dman
I have just whipped up some documentation regarding setting up exim and spamassassin. Basically I just outlined my setup, which Works For Me :-). Check it out if you are interested, http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim_spamassassin.html and let me know what you think (if you want to

Re: Setting up Exim

1999-08-18 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 09:29:12PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Thanks for the quick response. | Yes, it seems I can mail myself. I started "mail" and sent a message to | "viggo" (my local username). It arrived promptly, and I was able to read it. | I can not, however, find any file by that na

Re: Setting up Exim

1999-08-18 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 07:57:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Allright, maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm stuck: | In X, I open a xterm and type eximconfig. I supply my mailserver's id and | tell it where to put the mail (in the sole user's account: mine!). Not too | difficult, even f

Re: Setting up Exim

1999-08-17 Thread Steve George
Hi, First off I am confused why you have exim installed: I thought smail was the default for stable.guess I am wrong. On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 09:29:12PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. > Yes, it seems I can mail myself. I started "mail" and sent a message to

Re: Setting up Exim

1999-08-17 Thread vw
itux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: Greg Baker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt:17. august 1999 20:34 > Til: Wichmann, Viggo > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Emne: Re: Setting up Exim > > On Tue,

Re: Setting up Exim

1999-08-17 Thread Greg Baker
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Allright, maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm stuck: > In X, I open a xterm and type eximconfig. I supply my mailserver's id and > tell it where to put the mail (in the sole user's account: mine!). Not too > difficult, even for a newbie like me.

Setting up Exim

1999-08-17 Thread vw
Allright, maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm stuck: In X, I open a xterm and type eximconfig. I supply my mailserver's id and tell it where to put the mail (in the sole user's account: mine!). Not too difficult, even for a newbie like me. Now, when I try to get my mail, I run fetchmail (the m

Re: Help setting up Exim as relay host for private network

1999-08-10 Thread Bruce Jackson
David Natkins wrote: > > Bruce, > Exactly what does Exim say? (check /var/log/exim/mainlog). > > Bruce Jackson wrote: > > > I am trying to setup exim 3.02 on a potato system. The system is the > > firewall/gateway for my network. The problem is that I can accept email > > for the inter

Help setting up Exim as relay host for private network

1999-08-09 Thread Bruce Jackson
I am trying to setup exim 3.02 on a potato system. The system is the firewall/gateway for my network. The problem is that I can accept email for the internal host but the email is not routing to the internal host. Exim does not know what to do with it. The internal host is in the /etc/hosts fil