Morten Liebach wrote: > [...] > My /etc/inetd.conf looks like this: > > #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. > smtp stream tcp nowait mail /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs > nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/leafnode > > #:INFO: Info services > finger stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/in.fingerd > ident stream tcp wait identd /usr/sbin/identd identd > > These are the only lines that are not commented out. Try to copy the > line for smtp from above, it should work.
And so I did... It works! > Do you actually need all the things you have running? Certainly not. I barely know what they are good for. You see I have a lot to learn... > Is it slink you use? Yes, but I want to upgrade to potato as soon as the CDs are easily available for me. I downloaded quite a big part of slink from the Internet (about 210 packages) and I have a *really* slow connection, so I don't want to go through this again. I will need potato for X. The slink version doesn't work for my video card. > [...] > > This is the output of nmap in my case: > > > > 9 tcp discard > > 13 tcp daytime > > 21 tcp ftp > > 23 tcp telnet > > 37 tcp time > > 79 tcp finger > > 111 tcp sunrpc > > 113 tcp auth > > 512 tcp exec > > 513 tcp login > > 514 tcp shell > > 515 tcp printer > > It isn't a very secure setup on anything but a ``trusted network'', > whatever that is. I'm not surprised to read that. > As you are on a dial-up like me, you probably don't need any of these > ports, nmap of my machine: > > Port State Protocol Service > 22 open tcp ssh secure shell. > 25 open tcp smtp EXIM!!! > 79 open tcp finger nifty thing, not important. > 80 open tcp http Apache, dwww on-line docs > 113 open tcp auth identd, for IRC ... > 119 open tcp nntp leafnode newsserver. > 515 open tcp printer ... > 1024 open tcp unknown What is this?? > 6000 open tcp X11 ... > > Ports 79 and 113 could be shut down ... but doing that isn't very > inportant for me. > nmap now gives me the following list: Open ports on woof (127.0.0.1): Port Number Protocol Service 25 tcp smtp 111 tcp sunrpc 515 tcp printer ...though I still don't know what sunrpc is good for. > > [...] > > Please would you be so kind to check them if they are correct? > > Sure! > > > [...] > > Q: Which user accounts should system administrator mail go to? > > A: andy > > Is ``andy'' your username? Yes. > If so, your outgoing mail will claim to come > from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this setup [...] eximconfig says: Mail for the 'postmaster and 'root' accounts is usually redirected to one or more user accounts of the actual system administrator [...who is me...]. By default [...] mail for postmaster and for various system accounts is redirected to root, and mail for 'root' is redirected to a real user [...] Which user account(s) should system administrators mail go to? Enter one or more usernames [...] Enter 'none if you want to leave this mail in root's mailbox - NB this is strongly disencouraged [...] By entering 'andy' I have got messages from my system delivered to /var/spool/mail/andy. I have to explain that this isn't really local delivery as I have a standalone PC with no LAN. It just goes from localhost to localhost. This happened several times and I felt nothing bad about it. Isn't this common practice? If not, what else should I enter? > > > Well, at least I know that exim works for _local deliveries_ [...] > > So it is just a broken inetd.conf. Shouldn't inetd.conf have been updated during the installation of exim? Perhaps it is a bug in the exim package, but I haven't checked the bug report yet. > Fix it as per above, and do a ``killall -HUP inetd''. And so I did. Mail is now delivered to /var/spool/mail/andy just like I thought. Thank you very much again. The next thing will be setting up mutt. > > > > [...] Look at my homepage [...] I will have a thorough look at your .muttrc... Cheers, Andreas.