Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 May 2014 at 09:56:59 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > Apparently in all my fiddling, having changed the line in > exim4.conf.template from satellite to internet, It has corrected > update-exim4.conf.conf so that it reads: > > dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost' A little apology from me he

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Sat 24 May 2014 at 01:29:04 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > On Thu 22 May 2014 at 22:43:37 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> > >> >> I'll be back at it in 2wks or so.. I suspect it will be pretty simple >> >> now. >> > >> > It should be after what follows:

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Sat 24 May 2014 at 01:29:04 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > On Thu 22 May 2014 at 22:43:37 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> > >> >> I'll be back at it in 2wks or so.. I suspect it will be pretty simple >> >> now. >> > >> > It should be after what follows:

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 May 2014 at 17:51:19 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 01:29:04AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Brian writes: > > > > > On Thu 22 May 2014 at 22:43:37 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > > > >> I'll be back at it in 2wks or so.. I suspect it will be pretty simple >

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 May 2014 at 01:29:04 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Thu 22 May 2014 at 22:43:37 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > >> I'll be back at it in 2wks or so.. I suspect it will be pretty simple > >> now. > > > > It should be after what follows::) > > > > In update-exim

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-24 Thread Brian
On Sat 24 May 2014 at 00:54:07 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > Brian writes: > > Darac Marjal wrote: > >> For exim, > >> http://www.manu-j.com/blog/wordpress-exim4-ubuntu-gmail-smtp/75/ > >> suggests to set the smarthost to "mail.messagingengine.com::587" (when > >> using debconf) and to add a new

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 01:29:04AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Thu 22 May 2014 at 22:43:37 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > >> I'll be back at it in 2wks or so.. I suspect it will be pretty simple > >> now. > > > > It should be after what follows::) > > > > In update-e

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: > On Thu 22 May 2014 at 22:43:37 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I'll be back at it in 2wks or so.. I suspect it will be pretty simple >> now. > > It should be after what follows::) > > In update-exim4.conf.conf change 'satellite' to 'internet'. There is a > crucial addition to

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Brian writes: Darac Marjal wrote: >> For exim, >> http://www.manu-j.com/blog/wordpress-exim4-ubuntu-gmail-smtp/75/ >> suggests to set the smarthost to "mail.messagingengine.com::587" (when >> using debconf) and to add a new routing driver. Probably easiest to just >> read that page for the inform

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 22 May 2014 at 22:43:37 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'll be back at it in 2wks or so.. I suspect it will be pretty simple > now. It should be after what follows::) In update-exim4.conf.conf change 'satellite' to 'internet'. There is a crucial addition to make to dc_smarthost. mai

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-22 Thread Harry Putnam
First off, so many thanks are due to posters on this thread. You've reduced a really vast amount of docu into a few paragraphs of just the right stuff for my situation. With my muddled thinking & incomplete background, I would have a been a very long time getting to the stage offered in this thre

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-22 Thread Brian
We may as well have a record that this thread is related to https://lists.debian.org/87sio62xt1@newsguy.com On Wed 21 May 2014 at 22:38:52 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > Klaus writes: > > > The server (mail.messagingengine.com) doesn't respond to ping nor to an > > attempt at connecting

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Klaus writes: > The server (mail.messagingengine.com) doesn't respond to ping nor to an > attempt at connecting through port 25 right now (20/5/2014, 13:30 GMT) > > $ swaks -s mail.messagingengine.com -q FIRST-HELO > === Trying mail.messagingengine.com:25... > ^C (manually aborted after a minute

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-20 Thread Brian
On Tue 20 May 2014 at 12:57:01 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > According to > https://www.fastmail.fm/help/technical/servernamesandports.html what you > require is mail.messagingengine.com port 465 (old-style SSL) or port 587 > (with STARTTLS). You shouldn't need to pretend to be anyone else to send

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 06:22:49PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm trying to setup exim4 in a situation that has got to be pretty > common. (Other than perhaps the choice of smtp server) > > In general it is: > > single user home machine running debian > > send mail to remote addresses by `smar

Re: Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-20 Thread Klaus
On 19/05/14 23:22, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm trying to setup exim4 in a situation that has got to be pretty > common. (Other than perhaps the choice of smtp server) > > In general it is: > > single user home machine running debian > > send mail to remote addresses by `smart host' > > Retrieve m

Anyone using exim with fastmail.fm's smtp server as smart host?

2014-05-19 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm trying to setup exim4 in a situation that has got to be pretty common. (Other than perhaps the choice of smtp server) In general it is: single user home machine running debian send mail to remote addresses by `smart host' Retrieve mail by fetchmail, or in some accounts just use Imap and do

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-23 Thread Paul Johnson
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

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
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. >

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-23 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
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

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-20 Thread John Hasler
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

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-20 Thread Mihira Fernando
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

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
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

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
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

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-19 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
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? >

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
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

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-19 Thread Paul Johnson
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

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-19 Thread Andrius
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

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
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

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-19 Thread Andrius Burlega
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

Re: Using Exim

2008-03-19 Thread Johann Spies
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

Using Exim

2008-03-19 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
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 Mäntyvaara -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Using exim as SMTP-AUTH client

2007-12-15 Thread Felix Karpfen
e this thread for an account of some trouble I once had using exim > with Gmail: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403583 > That reference helped a lot! My error message, when attempting to send mail from my GMail account, was (from memory) virtually identical wi

Re: Using exim as SMTP-AUTH client

2007-12-13 Thread Celejar
7;passwd.client' section of 'man exim4-config_files'; read the manpage, and see this thread for an account of some trouble I once had using exim with Gmail: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403583 [That problem has been fixed, but that might give you a flavor of the

Using exim as SMTP-AUTH client

2007-12-13 Thread Felix Karpfen
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 smarthost put the name of the server, your login and password in /etc/exim4/passwd.client. See the

AW: AW: Using exim director with LDAP

2004-02-04 Thread Brian Rosenberger
> 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=Mailaccoun

Re: AW: Using exim director with LDAP

2004-02-02 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Brian Rosenberger wrote: 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=Mailacco

AW: Using exim director with LDAP

2004-02-02 Thread Brian Rosenberger
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=b

Re: Using exim director with LDAP

2004-02-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
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?

Using exim director with LDAP

2004-02-01 Thread Brian Rosenberger
Hi, i tried to configure Exim 3.35 to do a LDAP lookup to determine wich mailboxes are local. There are several sample configs around in the web, however, I can´t get it running. Here is my director in exim.conf: - ldapuser: driver = smartuser local_parts = ${l

Re: using exim directly instead of smarthost

2003-11-07 Thread Cam Ellison
* 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

Re: using exim directly instead of smarthost

2003-11-06 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> 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

Re: using exim directly instead of smarthost

2003-11-05 Thread ScruLoose
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

Re: using exim directly instead of smarthost

2003-11-05 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> 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,

Re: using exim directly instead of smarthost

2003-11-05 Thread Benedict Verheyen
> 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,

Re: using exim directly instead of smarthost

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Weir
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

using exim directly instead of smarthost

2003-11-04 Thread Benedict Verheyen
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? Also, i've have always wondered how one sets up a "real" mail server: if you had a domain

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-16 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-16 Thread David
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-16 Thread Jens Grivolla
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-16 Thread David
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-16 Thread Jens Grivolla
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Rob Weir
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Mark Carroll
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'

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Jens Grivolla
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Jamin W . Collins
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,

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Mark Carroll
ou really know what you're doing). > > Why is this? I'm using it on a dialup account. Perhaps we are talking > about different usages here. What I do is retrieve my mail from my > ISP's mailserver using POP3 with fetchmail. As I said in my previous > post, using Exi

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Jens Grivolla
ou really know what you're doing). > > Why is this? I'm using it on a dialup account. Perhaps we are talking > about different usages here. What I do is retrieve my mail from my > ISP's mailserver using POP3 with fetchmail. As I said in my previous > post, usi

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Jens Grivolla
rting incoming mail into folders. In order to receive mail using exim you would need to have set up an MX record for your domein pointing to your machine on your nameserver, which is obviously not the case for the people who ask how to set up their mail filtering. Ciao, Jens P.S.: after writing t

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Jamin W . Collins
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
ilboxes. 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/doc/exim. It could well be that > using exim for a single-user account is ov

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread David
p account. Perhaps we are talking about different usages here. What I do is retrieve my mail from my ISP's mailserver using POP3 with fetchmail. As I said in my previous post, using Exim for this purpose may be overkill, but AFAICT, it works.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
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 using exim on a config I've

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Jens Grivolla
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Rob Weir
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Jens Grivolla
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Mark Carroll
that is not permanently connected to the > > > Internet (unless you really know what you're doing). > > > > Really? When did this change? I've been using exim on a config I've > > only made minor changes to since I set it up four years ago. > > Whe

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Jens Grivolla
less you really know what you're doing). > > Really? When did this change? I've been using exim on a config I've > only made minor changes to since I set it up four years ago. When did what change? Ciao, Jens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Paul Johnson
this change? I've been using exim on a config I've only made minor changes to since I set it up four years ago. -- Baloo msg07066/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Jens Grivolla
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-14 Thread Mark Carroll
filter.txt.gz" in /usr/share/doc/exim. It could well be that > using exim for a single-user account is overkill, but it works. (snip) Yes - TBH, I've never had to figure out how to use procmail, because exim filters have always done everything I've wanted that other people use procma

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-14 Thread David
ute 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/doc/exim. It could well be that using exim for a single-user a

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-14 Thread Jamin W . Collins
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-14 Thread Jens Grivolla
[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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-14 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-14 Thread Pat Colbeck
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

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-14 Thread Jens Grivolla
[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

using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-14 Thread Robert Wilhelm Land
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 each subscribed maillist    +one inbox for all the other mail Unf

Re: using two exims for dialup, was Re: Using exim efficiently on a dialup machine

2002-09-12 Thread Geoff Crompton
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

Re: using two exims for dialup, was Re: Using exim efficiently on a dialup machine

2002-09-11 Thread Robert Ian Smit
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

using two exims for dialup, was Re: Using exim efficiently on a dialup machine

2002-09-11 Thread Geoff Crompton
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

Re: Using exim efficiently on a dialup machine

2002-09-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
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 -

Re: Using exim efficiently on a dialup machine

2002-09-09 Thread Joerg Johannes
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

Re: Using exim efficiently on a dialup machine

2002-09-09 Thread Eric G. Miller
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&qu

Re: Using exim efficiently on a dialup machine

2002-09-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
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 >

Using exim efficiently on a dialup machine

2002-09-09 Thread Joerg Johannes
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 don't know why this is

Re: Setting Reply-To: using exim?

2001-02-07 Thread Mark Phillips
Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Brian, thanks for taking the trouble to write this - it's been useful! I'd like to second this. Thanks Brian for your reply. Very much appreciated. Mark. -- _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~

Re: Setting Reply-To: using exim?

2001-02-06 Thread Glyn Millington
Brian, thanks for taking the trouble to write this - it's been useful! Glyn M -- so here we are then http://members.tripod.co.uk/Christchurch2000uk Running Debian/Gnu Linux 3:27am up 21 min, 2 users,

Re: Setting Reply-To: using exim?

2001-02-06 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:53:36AM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > Thanks for your reply on this. There are still some things I don't > understand very well though. > > Yes it does use SMTP envelope sender, but the problem (I was told) was > that when the bounced message got back to cheapisp.com.au

Re: Setting Reply-To: using exim?

2001-02-06 Thread Mark Phillips
Thanks for your reply on this. There are still some things I don't understand very well though. brian moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:05:13AM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > enable /etc/email-address use. I use this s

Re: Setting Reply-To: using exim?

2001-02-06 Thread mike polniak
> > All in all, it is a bad idea --- so I'm told. The _correct_ solution, > I was told, is to tell the truth about the "From:" address, ie keep it > as [EMAIL PROTECTED], but to set the "Reply-To:" field to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So this is what I want to do, except I don't know how to do it.

Re: Setting Reply-To: using exim?

2001-02-06 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
Mark Phillips wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > enable /etc/email-address use. I use this so that mail from > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ... > All in all, it is a bad idea --- so I'm told. The _correct_ solution, > I was told, is to tell the truth ab

Re: Setting Reply-To: using exim?

2001-02-06 Thread brian moore
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:05:13AM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > enable /etc/email-address use. I use this so that mail from > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I could do this, but I have been told in the past that this is bad. > L

Re: Setting Reply-To: using exim?

2001-02-06 Thread Mark Phillips
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > enable /etc/email-address use. I use this so that mail from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I could do this, but I have been told in the past that this is bad. Let me explain what I was told. If my secondary isp thinks of me as "[EMAIL

RE: Setting Reply-To: using exim?

2001-02-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > My alternative is to configure a "Reply-To:" field so that people > reply to the correct address, even when the email comes "From:" > somewhere different. But what is the best way of doing this? It > would be nice to do this at the exim layer, independent of MUA, but I > can't find any infor

Setting Reply-To: using exim?

2001-02-06 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I have more than one ISP that I use, but I want all mail to me to be addressed to a single email address. The way I have handled this in the past is to use exim to make my emails _seem_ to come from the one address, even if really they don't always. I have been told however, that this is a b

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