Now I face another problem. I updated to exim4 and now I got another problem: At the moment it is not possible to use fetchmail to get my mails from the server. Can anybody explain this? At the moment I don't remember the error-message, but later that day, maybe in the evening I can post this.
German > David Cantrell wrote: >> It took me forever to upgrade to exim 4. For someone who doesn't spend >> a >> lot of time looking after mail servers, upgrading your own one is quite >> daunting. Mail is the one service that you really don't want to break. > > True, but if you follow for example debian's migration docs it is rather > painless. Unless you have a lot of tricky custom configuration. I first > created an exim4 configuration file with all the custom things from > exim3 applied and did test it to see if it was syntactically correct, I > also had a safe fallback exim4 setup (a vanilla debian config with the > usual exim4-config additions). All went well and downtime was the > duration of stopping exim3 and starting exim4. If things would have gone > wrong I could have easily kept email working by using the fallback > configuration, which would at least guarantee email throughput, but > would momentarily break customs stuff like mailinglists (not such a big > deal). > > I'd think migrating from, say, sendmail can be rather painless too. It's > a matter of carefully checking the customisations you have and > implementing them in your new exim4 config. Do a few test runs on a > cloned server. > > I am personally not such a fan of doing a lot of customisation in the > MTA, but rather use a spamfilter to do such things. Since most of it is > related to some form of filtering. The few things I have are > mailinglists (mailman), smtp authentication, encryption and a few debian > related tweaks (using macros). > > Best regards, > Jeroen > > > > -- > ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/ > -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
