On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 23:01:58 +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: > I'm wondering if exim can solve my problem with mail. > > I am having some trouble with fetchmail. I posted to this list previously, > But am uncertain that my message got through. I installed sendmail, and am > uncertain I have it right. Smail worked will for quite a long time. After > a recent upgrade I saw some traffic on this list about needing to > reconfigure smail: that was a nightmare, having taken months when I finally > did get it going. Now do it again? I'm not sure I ever understood---wrong, > I'm sure I never did.
Leaping from the pot to the frying pan is often not a wise approach. OTOH, it sometimes takes drastic measures to get up and running according to schedule. Right now, I don't see how replacing your MTA is going to fix fetchmail. Of course, you should be using smail from bo, unless you have a permanent internet connection..at least that's what I was told and it works for me. > Sendmail is apparently working, but I'm not in command here either. Someone > on the list warned that smail has been going strange places, which prompted > my change: I thought it might solve my problem with fetchmail. Wrong. > Fetchmail's problem --- crashing during the middle of the first message > retrieval, every time, with an SMTP error because of failure to > connect---still continues. I don't know how smail could fix fetchmail. Try fixing fetchmail. Since I have the latest and greatest fetchmail in hamm, and it works great (actually, I've never had a problem with fetchmail), I don't know what to tell you, other than to look at the bug reports. > I looked at exim. Can exim do queues? That is, can mail be queued and send > out (like runq) at the time of ppp connection? That's critical. Exim seems > to be saying it's best at managing systems that are connected full time. exim is reportedly a dropin replacement for smail/sendmail, so yes (I haven't tried it, but everything I've read says this is true). I believe this is mentioned in the package description, but if not, the doc package for exim. > Leaving all those aside for a moment? Is it true about smail? I've read here that smail will be fixed by the hamm release, although again I don't have any direct knowledge. -- David Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]