Re: email servers

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Johnson
http://lists.debian.org/ "Reply-to-all" violates list rules (and I subscribe to the list and don't need two copies in my mail spool). Please use your MUA's "Reply-to-Mailing List" option instead. On Wednesday 05 April 2006 13:41, Nate Duehr wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 April 2

Re: email servers

2006-04-05 Thread Nate Duehr
Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 04 April 2006 01:54, listrcv wrote: ChadDavis wrote: If so, then does Postfix, as the default MTA for the debian system, The default MTA is still exim, isn't it? In Debian, yes. In the Unix world in general, it still appears to be sendmail. Might as well sa

Re: email servers

2006-04-05 Thread listrcv
Ron Johnson wrote: If so, then does Postfix, as the default MTA for the debian system, The default MTA is still exim, isn't it? In Debian, yes. In the Unix world in general, it still appears to be sendmail. But since all(?) MTAs provide a /usr/sbin/sendmail, it's irrelevant to the user,

Re: email servers

2006-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 17:46 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 01:54, listrcv wrote: > > ChadDavis wrote: > > > If so, then does Postfix, as the default MTA for the debian system, > > > > The default MTA is still exim, isn't it? > > In Debian, yes. In the Unix world in general,

Re: email servers

2006-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 17:43 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 03 April 2006 09:56, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:48 -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:28:58AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > > > > Does cron talk to the MTA with the SMTP port? > > > >

Re: email servers

2006-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 01:54, listrcv wrote: > ChadDavis wrote: > > If so, then does Postfix, as the default MTA for the debian system, > > The default MTA is still exim, isn't it? In Debian, yes. In the Unix world in general, it still appears to be sendmail. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XM

Re: email servers

2006-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
Most of the English world read from top down, not in random order, please quote accordingly. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting On Monday 03 April 2006 11:36, ChadDavis wrote: > Matthew, > > And sendmail is an MTA? Sendmail hands it off to postfix? Sendmail is an MTA, so is postifx. Sendmail would

Re: email servers

2006-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 03 April 2006 17:31, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 01:16 +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:56:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:48 -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:28:58AM -0600, ChadDavis

Re: email servers

2006-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 03 April 2006 09:56, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:48 -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:28:58AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > > > Does cron talk to the MTA with the SMTP port? > > > > No, it pipes messages to /usr/sbin/sendmail. > > Why doesn't it

Re: email servers

2006-04-04 Thread listrcv
ChadDavis wrote: If so, then does Postfix, as the default MTA for the debian system, The default MTA is still exim, isn't it? GH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: email servers

2006-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 01:16 +0200, David Jardine wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:56:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:48 -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:28:58AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > > > > Does cron talk to the MTA with the SMTP po

Re: email servers

2006-04-03 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:56:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:48 -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:28:58AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > > > Does cron talk to the MTA with the SMTP port? > > > > No, it pipes messages to /usr/sbin/sendmail. > > W

Re: email servers

2006-04-03 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:35:54PM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > And sendmail is an MTA? Sendmail hands it off to postfix? Sendmail used to be *the* MTA, so many programs coded back in the day hardcoded the assumption that they could use /usr/sbin/sendmail to inject mail for delivery. MTAs nowaday

Re: email servers

2006-04-03 Thread ChadDavis
Matthew,And sendmail is an MTA?  Sendmail hands it off to postfix?  If so, then does Postfix, as the default MTA for the debian system, even run an SMTP port service?Chad On 4/3/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:28:58AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote:> Does cron t

Re: email servers

2006-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 12:26 -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:56:17AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Why doesn't it use "mail"? > > Does it matter somehow? I don't know. I thought you did... -- - Ron Joh

Re: email servers

2006-04-03 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:56:17AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Why doesn't it use "mail"? Does it matter somehow? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: email servers

2006-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:48 -0500, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:28:58AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > > Does cron talk to the MTA with the SMTP port? > > No, it pipes messages to /usr/sbin/sendmail. Why doesn't it use "mail"? --

Re: email servers

2006-04-03 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:28:58AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > Does cron talk to the MTA with the SMTP port? No, it pipes messages to /usr/sbin/sendmail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: email servers

2006-04-03 Thread ChadDavis
GH, But there may other programs running that try to send mail, like cron, for example. You would have to take care that sending mail from such programs will work. So this means that a local MTA is a core functional part of a unix system, I mean if something like cron wants to use it?   So the

Re: email servers

2006-04-03 Thread listrcv
ChadDavis wrote: > an incoming mail server and an outgoing mail server. This means that it must listen on some port to receive email from the outside world ( this is port 25?, SMTP ). And it means that it must listen on some internal port, or scan some local directories, for mail to send out t

Re: email servers

2006-03-31 Thread Ron Johnson
client". > Thanks Ron, > Chad > On 3/30/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 14:01 -0700, ChadDavis wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I'm pretty unfamiliar with email servers. I need to install >

Re: email servers

2006-03-31 Thread ChadDavis
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 14:01 -0700, ChadDavis wrote:> Hello.>> I'm pretty unfamiliar with email servers.  I need to install a> server in my local network to use for development of another> application.  I just need a mail server availabl

Re: email servers

2006-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 10:00 +0800, Rocky Ou wrote: > On 3/31/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 14:01 -0700, ChadDavis wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I'm pretty unfamiliar with email serv

Re: email servers

2006-03-30 Thread Rocky Ou
On 3/31/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 14:01 -0700, ChadDavis wrote:> Hello.>> I'm pretty unfamiliar with email servers.  I need to install a> server in my local network to use for development of another> application.  I just need a mai

Re: email servers

2006-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 14:01 -0700, ChadDavis wrote: > Hello. > > I'm pretty unfamiliar with email servers. I need to install a > server in my local network to use for development of another > application. I just need a mail server available for the appli- > cation. I

Re: email servers

2006-03-30 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 02:01:31PM -0700, ChadDavis wrote: > Hello. > > I'm pretty unfamiliar with email servers. I need to install a server in my > local network to use for development of another application. I just need a > mail server available for the application. I rea

Re: email servers

2006-03-30 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
ChadDavis wrote: Hello. I'm pretty unfamiliar with email servers. I need to install a server in my local network to use for development of another application. I just need a mail server available for the application. I read some of the online documentation and became a bit confused

Re: email servers

2006-03-30 Thread Pol Hallen
>I just need a > mail server available for the application. postfix+courier > I read some of the online > documentation and became a bit confused about what constitutes a server. > Postfix is on the system. 4only send email > What does it do? I don't think it has anything > to do with my email c

email servers

2006-03-30 Thread ChadDavis
Hello. I'm pretty unfamiliar with email servers.  I need to install a server in my local network to use for development of another application.  I just need a mail server available for the application.  I read some of the online documentation and became a bit confused about what constitu

Re: EMail servers fail when domain.com is a cname alias not an IP

2002-02-05 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:35:22PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: | Why is it that when the default for a domain. For example, in my case, | hanaden.com maps to a cname, MTA's fail I believe that part of an RFC states that MX records can only point to IP addresses or A records but not to CNAME records.

EMail servers fail when domain.com is a cname alias not an IP

2002-02-05 Thread hanasaki
Why is it that when the default for a domain. For example, in my case, hanaden.com maps to a cname, MTA's fail ex: hanaden.com mx IP ... no problem hanaden.com mx somename.domainD.org ... email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to [EMAIL PROTECTED] not ... [EMA