I toyed with it for a bit and now its
working. I hate computers!
- kath
- Original Message -
From:
kath
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 11:28
AM
Subject: [techtalk] Mail accounts
Been having some trouble setting up mail accounts
on
Been having some trouble setting up mail accounts
on Debian (Being checked through IMAP w/ Outlook Express. uw imap is the
imap daemon, exim is the smtp).
We create a full blown account called "Rich.G"
on mail.ourdomain.org using linuxconf, but when we try to send an email to it,
we get t
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Vinnie wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, curious wrote:
>
> > > I tried searching the RFCs and decided there's way too many for me to want
> > > to read :)
> >
> >
>
> I meant, when I searched for RFCs relavent to email, there were too many
> -- I skimmed through two or th
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 09:33:40PM -0700 or thereabouts, curious wrote:
> all of the RFC's I posted were "april 1st" RFC's like the infinate monkey
> protocol, ip over avian carriers.. etc..
> I was tring to bring light to reading RFCs by pointing out some of the
> lighter ones..
One of those y
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 05:25:45PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Kath thought:
> Can you have a mail server without a domain name for it (just an IP)?
>
> - Kathy
>
AFAIK you can but the IP address needs to be properly quoted (with
something like square brackets) in sendmail config fil
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, curious wrote:
> all of the RFC's I posted were "april 1st" RFC's like the infinate monkey
> protocol, ip over avian carriers.. etc..
> I was tring to bring light to reading RFCs by pointing out some of the
> lighter ones..
duh..can we say 'one track mind' (as in,
what-doe
all of the RFC's I posted were "april 1st" RFC's like the infinate monkey
protocol, ip over avian carriers.. etc..
I was tring to bring light to reading RFCs by pointing out some of the
lighter ones..
sorry for the confusion,
JL
/"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, curious wrote:
> > I tried searching the RFCs and decided there's way too many for me to want
> > to read :)
>
>
> Here are some good rfcs to start with:
> gigabit and trends:
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1216.html
okay, what's this have to do with the use of IP addresse
> I tried searching the RFCs and decided there's way too many for me to want
> to read :)
Here are some good rfcs to start with:
gigabit and trends:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1216.html
Response to the above: slow networks:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1217.html
an early wireless network stan
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, alissa bader wrote:
> if you only have an ip address though, you might be
> able to send mail, but how would you receive it?
well, I just sent mail from my work account to surmonde@[63.68.131.237]
and received it here. I suspect that this *may* require specific setup of
you
if you only have an ip address though, you might be
able to send mail, but how would you receive it?
i mean, if you are [EMAIL PROTECTED], you could send
mail out, sure. but if users wanted to respond to
you, they'd have to send a message to user@ipaddress,
not user@domainname. and this might
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Kath wrote:
> Can you have a mail server without a domain name for it (just an IP)?
I do recall having a linux server set up just this way in high school (the
addresses were actually something like user@[255.255.255.255] as I recall,
but don't take that for gospel -- this w
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> > Cc: "alissa bader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:22 PM
> > Subject: Re: [techtalk] Mail server
> >
> >
> > >
> > > MTA is your Messaging Transfer Agent. According t
btw...
Moongroup consulting (www.moongroup.com) has some excellent resources
involving setting up mail on a Linux platform. They also have a sendmail
mailing list which I subscribe to. It will not add a lot of traffic to
your inbox, but serves as a really great forum for asking anything
specif
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To: "Kath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "alissa bader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Mail server
>
> You know, I am not 100% sure, but I believe you have to have a domain
&
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> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [techtalk] Mail server
>
>
> >
> > MTA is your Messaging Transfer Agent. According to my handy, dandy
> > dictionary of computing (http://www.instantweb.com/~foldoc/conten
;
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Mail server
>
> MTA is your Messaging Transfer Agent. According to my handy, dandy
> dictionary of computing (http://www.instantweb.com/~foldoc/contents.html),
> here is the definition:
>
> ---
> Message Tra
n simple words
> like "vroom vroom", "go fast" and "nice", it would be much appreciated :)
>
> - Kathleen
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "alissa bader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Th
- Original Message -
From: "Kath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "alissa bader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Mail server
> Well what we want is to be able to have people in o
There is a Mail-Administrator-HOWTO on the LDP site, at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Mail-Administrator-HOWTO.html
Regards,
--
David C. Merrill, Ph.D.
LDP Collection Editor & Coordinator
www.LinuxDoc.org
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; and "nice", it would be much appreciated :)
- Kathleen
- Original Message -
From: "alissa bader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Mail server
> depends. :>
>
> on what M
depends. :>
on what MTA you're going to use (sendmail? etc?), how
many accounts are going to be on the machine, lots of
things.
bet you there'd be a howto somewhere on this (maybe on
red hat's website?), or you might want to check out
the very excellent Essential System Administration
book by
How do I go about setting up a SMTP and POP3 server in Red Hat
6.2? What software should I use? Any tips/advice?
- Kathy
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 12:12:08AM +0200, Sunnanvind Briling wrote:
> The problem is that some of the mail won't get through; it complains that
> "reverie does not exist". reverie is the name I arbitrarily chose as my
> localhost name, and of course it doesn't exist as a locator.
> The question
Hello, everybody, I have been having trouble with my mail configuration since
day one.
Here is the situation; I have my mail with one isp (swipnet), and use another
to dial up. My old isp doesn't allow me to use the SMTP server, so I want to
use my own computer for sending.
I configured exim wi
We had an e-mail filter that would scan all e-mail attachments
for viruses. The only trouble was, it would rename every .exe
attachment to .defang. Having to explain to many clueless
people how to rename the .exe files was just too much of a pain,
so we turned off the filter. Does anyone have a
Hello All,
I'm hoping for some help with the following problem. I've got RH6.1
w/sendmail and IMAP running. I want to setup a RAID for users to help
speed up disk I/O. Here's the problem. Mail is stored in
/var/spool/mail/[username]. User create folders, like those created in
pine to seperate s
"Chris R." wrote:
>
> This might sound impossible, but does anyone know how I can pick up mail
> from a shell account through windows.
Alternatively you can simply telnet or ssh into your shell account
and use mutt, elm or some other mail package.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant
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From: "Chris R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 8:59 AM
Subject: [techtalk] mail
> This might sound impossible, but does anyone know how I can pick up mail
> from a shell account through windows. Currently I use O
#if Chris R.
> This might sound impossible, but does anyone know how I can pick up mail
> from a shell account through windows. Currently I use Outlook Express for
> windows. Any ideas/thoughts would be acceptable. My reason for doing this
> is because I do not use Linux, yet, as my main operat
This might sound impossible, but does anyone know how I can pick up mail
from a shell account through windows. Currently I use Outlook Express for
windows. Any ideas/thoughts would be acceptable. My reason for doing this
is because I do not use Linux, yet, as my main operating systemalthoug
Hey Jenn,
Thanks for your, and everyone else's help. That seemed to be the
problem.
Thanks,
Harry
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
>
> > ## Pony (alias) was added within the last 24hrs.
>
> Possibly your problem - it can take a while (several days)
Typing
host -t mx ip-solutions.net
shows the following result
ip-solutions.netMX 10 pony.ip-solutions.net
!!! ip-solutions.net MX host pony.ip-solutions.net is not canonical
So I'd suggest that your mailer is doing the Right Thing and complaining
about the lack of _cor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> ## Pony (alias) was added within the last 24hrs.
Possibly your problem - it can take a while (several days) for DNS information
to propogate through.
Of course, if this is in the DNS that the one which isn't able to find pony
uses, consider this hypothesis null. :
Hey All,
First I wanted to thank everyone for their help,
greatly appreciated. Sendmail doesn't seem to be the
problem since I can send the mail, just not to certain
lists that I am signed up to. And it only seems to
happen when I use something like pine and not IMP
(webmail). The following
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hey All,
> I have gotten some response over this question before
> but nothing I seem to do corrects it. I am connected
> via 1 IP. My network, of which includes a mail server,
> sits behind a MASQ'd router. The name of the mail server
> is pony.ip-solutions.net.
Hey All,
I have gotten some response over this question before
but nothing I seem to do corrects it. I am connected
via 1 IP. My network, of which includes a mail server,
sits behind a MASQ'd router. The name of the mail server
is pony.ip-solutions.net. When I send mail I have
sendmail.cf
Hey All,
I was wondering if anyone knew if it is possible to
run a cluster of mail servers behind a MASQ'd network. I
have quite a few old 486's that I'd like to assign the
job of mail server to. All the examples seem to use
routeable IP's (non-private) and the virtuale cluster
server I saw
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 21:37:33 -0500, Caitlyn M. Martin wrote:
>Please, folks... plain text, OK? Every mail client can read and generate it, and
>nobody has to truggle that way.
Standards? We don't need no steenking standards!
Hey, they wrote RFC822 for a *reason*
-Ian
--
wow, this is kinda n
Cathy James wrote:
> I'm using Outlook, not Outlook Express.
>
> I did find a switch somewhere that purported
> to turn off formatting, but it doesn't work correctly.
> What do you expect from an MS product?
>
> The solution I eventually came up with was
> to create a new
Hi,
> > Excuse me but am I the only one having problems viewing the mails. I use
> >Mutt and most emails I received are in HTML format. Can something be
> >done (like we standardized on non-HTML emails) or is HTML emails the norm
> >here?
> >
>
> You are not the first to have complained of this
> This is hardly technical...but...it borders on rule-boundedness to me.
> But still not that close to be unbearable. So either I mistimed
> majordomo or it didn't go thru. So I am still here. And I will probably
> always be leftie anti-authoritarian me. Same as you will be you. I spent
> too mu
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:33:14 -, "Lindsay Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
>I was out of memory or system resources! This is on a machine with
>132MB of RAM and 3GB free HD space and just after a reboot! Don't you
>just love how compatible Microsoft's applications are with their own
>OS?>
T
ge-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lindsay Walker
Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 7:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)
> I'm using Outlook, not Outlook Express.
>
> I did find a switch somewhere
> I'm using Outlook, not Outlook Express.
>
> I did find a switch somewhere that purported
> to turn off formatting, but it doesn't work correctly.
> What do you expect from an MS product?
In Outlook98, the option is under Tools: Options: Mail Format. There is a
drop down list of 'Send in this
> I'm using Outlook, not Outlook Express.
In Outlook:
1. Go to "Options..." in the tools menu.
2. Go to the "Mail Format" tab (3rd one along).
3. Message Format is the first section, you can set "Plain Text" there.
Unfortunately, as you have pointed out, Outlook also has "per user" settings
wh
29, 1999 7:37 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [techtalk] mail format (was re: ftp for non users)
>
>
>
>> Re: HTML mail: I think most people have the same
>> problem they I did. They would happily turn it off if
>> someone would just TELL THEM HOW.
&g
Cathy James wrote:
> >I find it painful to go from two easily to follow rules: "Be
> >nice, and be polite...to a whole bunch of things, about 50% of
> >which sounds silly called nettiquette. This is going too far
> >in my opinion. Since this is a diverse group I try to keep things
> >to text on
> Re: HTML mail: I think most people have the same
> problem they I did. They would happily turn it off if
> someone would just TELL THEM HOW.
If you are using Outlook Express, here's how to turn off HTML:
>From the Tools menu, choose Options. Click on the tab that says 'Send'. You
will see tw
>I find it painful to go from two easily to follow rules: "Be
>nice, and be polite...to a whole bunch of things, about 50% of
>which sounds silly called nettiquette. This is going too far
>in my opinion. Since this is a diverse group I try to keep things
>to text only. All I have to do is look
> Agree.
>
> So what do we standardized on text-only formats?
> We have yet to hear the silent majority.
agree, me too. i'm using elm, which certainly doesn't like html.
sara
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote:
> Isn't there also netiquette about keeping attributions? Even if your
> personal viewer doesn't insert them, it isn't that hard to look at the
> from: line and type something like "Jane Geek wrote..." or use a mailer
> that *does
Rino Mardo wrote:
> Agree.
>
> So what do we standardized on text-only formats?
> We have yet to hear the silent majority.
>
> On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Kathleen Weaver wrote:
>
> > >People what do you say? Shall we be more text-/console-friendly and
> > >standardized on text only emails.
> >
> > S
I rest my case. Deb has spoken and I think we should follow.
Thanks Deb.
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I do use pine, too, so html emails are a nuisance. I also think that we
> could just follow netiquette (on this subject, but on quoting and subjects
> - sigh - too) without v
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Rino Mardo wrote:
> So what do we standardized on text-only formats?
> We have yet to hear the silent majority.
I do use pine, too, so html emails are a nuisance. I also think that we
could just follow netiquette (on this subject, but on quoting and subjects
- sigh - too) wi
Agree.
So what do we standardized on text-only formats?
We have yet to hear the silent majority.
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Kathleen Weaver wrote:
> >People what do you say? Shall we be more text-/console-friendly and
> >standardized on text only emails.
>
> Standard netetiquette says that not o
On Nov 27, Kathleen Weaver conjectured:
> >People what do you say? Shall we be more text-/console-friendly and
> >standardized on text only emails.
>
> Standard netetiquette says that not only should text-only be sent to email
> lists, but also we should cut down on quoting.
Isn't there also n
>People what do you say? Shall we be more text-/console-friendly and
>standardized on text only emails.
Standard netetiquette says that not only should text-only be sent to email lists, but
also we should cut down on quoting.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
So I'm not the only one. :(
People what do you say? Shall we be more text-/console-friendly and
standardized on text only emails.
Many thanks to those who responded.
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Lighthouse Keeper in the Desert Sun wrote:
> On Nov 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] conjectured:
>
> > Excuse me bu
Below is a little perl script I wrote that removes html parts from messages
that have text parts as well. I wrote it because exmh goes ballistic when it
sees such mail. The only downside that I've seen is that it can't tell if the
two parts have the same content, so if someone sends you a pla
On Nov 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] conjectured:
> Excuse me but am I the only one having problems viewing the mails. I use
>Mutt and most emails I received are in HTML format. Can something be
>done (like we standardized on non-HTML emails) or is HTML emails the norm
>here?
>
You are not the first
> Me too, I was quite surprised when netscape wouldn't let me have more
> than one IMAP account from the same server. For some reason, it won't
> even consider allowing you more than one POP server, or more than one
> server at all unless they're all IMAP.
actually it CAN, but you have to name y
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On 11/24/99 at 8:29 PM Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
>Kathleen Weaver wrote:
>>
>> On the other hand, the mailer I'm using now, Calypso, not only allows multiple
>mailboxes, but multiple accounts in mailboxes. I sure wish they would write a Linux
>version
Kathleen Weaver wrote:
>
> On the other hand, the mailer I'm using now, Calypso, not only allows multiple
>mailboxes, but multiple accounts in mailboxes. I sure wish they would write a Linux
>version -- the good news, is that one of MCS products is available in a Linux version.
>
Interesting,
>Outlook might be different... might allow more than one account on the
>same server. I don't like outlook, though, and only use it to help
>people out when they ask questions specific to it ;o)
Besides sucking majorly, while Outlook and it's cousin Outlook Express allow multiple
sending account
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > But your "from" is always the same, unless you change it in netscape
> > universally.
> >
> > Also, netscape's IMAP will only let you have one account for a mail
> > server. Last week, I set up netscape IMAP mail to
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> But your "from" is always the same, unless you change it in netscape
> universally.
>
> Also, netscape's IMAP will only let you have one account for a mail
> server. Last week, I set up netscape IMAP mail to read from the
> "problem" account on mail
> > If you read mail through most windows news readers you need to choose an
> > address for your mail to come from... (your from: ), but it can only be
> > one (say you choose [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I don't know of a windows news
> > reader who would say recognise
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> If you can serve mail from your linux box, I'd imagine your win98 box
> could read from it. Most mail programs will not know what address the
> mail came in to and thus when you send out mail it'll all come from the
> same address.
>
> For example,
You will need a pop3 based reader on Win98 (netscape browser will do)
and you will need fetchmail (I think that's what is it is called, and a script
to home in on the mail servers)
Maureen Lecuona
Kathleen Weaver wrote:
>
> This may be a dumb question -- but can I set up my Linux box to fetch
Kathleen Weaver wrote:
>
> This may be a dumb question -- but can I set up my Linux box to fetch mail from all
>my POP mailboxes and hold it? Then can I use my Win98 box to read it when I get
>home? And will the Windows email program still know which address it was sent to
>when I answer it,
This may be a dumb question -- but can I set up my Linux box to fetch mail from all my
POP mailboxes and hold it? Then can I use my Win98 box to read it when I get home?
And will the Windows email program still know which address it was sent to when I
answer it, so it will go out to the right
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