exim and mtt probs continue
i continue to have problems setting up my email configuration. I have run eximconfig but have had trouble working out how to answer some of the questions I am not sure what is meant by some of the terms i.e. what is my visible mail name. To be honest i have used the default settings to set up exim i have no idea in most cases whether this is correct. I am dialling up to my isp using pon, I can't fine where to set up the isp smtp info re sending mail. Fetchmail seems to be ok but where does it write the emails to. I have installed mutt but when i run it i get the message that there is no /var/spool/mail/jmj directory jmj being my user name. Apparently exim should set this up for me/ I am truly at a loss. Mutt is also supposed to make a file called .muttrc in my home directory but this does not exist, apparently without it i cant specify which MTA i am using. Is there a mutt configuration script. If you have any idea how to proceed. If it would be easier to use another MTA i am happy to do so although i hear that exim is the best. thanks for your help very confused jm
Re: exim and mtt probs continue
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 03:01:22PM -, John-Mark wrote: i continue to have problems setting up my email configuration. I have run eximconfig but have had trouble working out how to answer some of the questions I am not sure what is meant by some of the terms i.e. what is my visible mail name. To be honest i have used the default settings to set up exim i have no idea in most cases whether this is correct. I am dialling up to my isp using pon, I can't fine where to set up the isp smtp info re sending mail. Fetchmail seems to be ok but where does it write the emails to. I have installed mutt but when i run it i get the message that there is no /var/spool/mail/jmj directory jmj being my user name. Apparently exim should set this up for me/ I am truly at a loss. Mutt is also supposed to make a file called .muttrc in my home directory but this does not exist, apparently without it i cant specify which MTA i am using. Is there a mutt configuration script. If you have any idea how to proceed. If it would be easier to use another MTA i am happy to do so although i hear that exim is the best. you don't need to tell your mta to mutt, it's just standard sendmail compatible. .muttrc is usually not created by mutt, you can do it yourself and put some relevant options in it. system wide config is in /etc/Muttrc for mutt. mutt hasn't anything to do with sending mail, at least not more then composing it and pasing it to exim. the visible mail name can be set to some subdomain you get mail for, or change the from address in mutt so the visible mail name will not be used by mutt. man 5 muttrc for more info about .muttrc and /etc/Muttrc (same format, last one just system wide, .muttrc system specific). -- ,---. Name: Alson van der Meulen Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School: [EMAIL PROTECTED] `---' You did what to the floppy??? -
Re: exim and mtt probs continue
John-Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i continue to have problems setting up my email configuration. I have run eximconfig but have had trouble working out how to answer some of the questions I am not sure what is meant by some of the terms i.e. what is my visible mail name. To be honest i have used the default settings to set up exim i have no idea in most cases whether this is correct. I am dialling up to my isp using pon, I can't fine where to set up the isp smtp info re sending mail. Fetchmail seems to be ok but where does it write the emails to. I have installed mutt but when i run it i get the message that there is no /var/spool/mail/jmj directory jmj being my user name. Apparently exim should set this up for me/ I am truly at a loss. Mutt is also supposed to make a file called .muttrc in my home directory but this does not exist, apparently without it i cant specify which MTA i am using. Is there a mutt configuration script. If you have any idea how to proceed. If it would be easier to use another MTA i am happy to do so although i hear that exim is the best. you can get example mutt config files at mutt.org i've been looking for people to help me test out my mta, so i would be willing to help you get it set up. if you have the time, email me and i can send the latest version to you.
Re: exim and mtt probs continue
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 03:01:22PM -, John-Mark wrote: [...] what is my visible mail name [...] The visible name should be the name you gave to your computer. I can't fine where to set up the isp smtp info re sending mail. When exim asks for your smarthost, enter the name for your provider's smtp server. Fetchmail seems to be ok but where does it write the emails to. Your incoming mail will go to /var/spool/mail/jmj by default. I have installed mutt but when i run it i get the message that there is no /var/spool/mail/jmj directory jmj being my user name. Apparently exim should set this up for me/ I am truly at a loss. Don't worry, just make sure it already exists. Mutt is also supposed to make a file called .muttrc in my home directory but this does not exist [...] You have to do this yourself. There is a /etc/Muttrc which should already work for you. You may want to copy it into your home directory and rename it as '.muttrc'. If you have any idea how to proceed. I also have a ppp-dialup-connection to my internet provider. Below are my answers during /usr/sbin/eximconfig. Replace them with your's where necessary. - What is the 'visible' name of your system:k-star - Does this system have any other names?:none - Are there any domains you want to relay mail for?:none - Are there any networks of local machines you want to relay mail for?:none - Would you like to use the RBL?:n - Which machine will act as the smarthost?:smtp.netway.at - Which user account should system administrator mail go to?:andy After you have finished your configuration, you should check your /etc/exim.conf for your rewriting rule in the section 'REWRITE CONFIGURATION'. Make sure that it is enabled, i.e. uncommented. Then you have to enter something like the following into your /etc/email-addresses: jmj:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Now you should be able to send and receive mail. If you want to use mutt's mailboxes you have to configure procmail additionally. I hope this helps. By the way: Wrap your lines. Also make question marks when asking questions. You will certainly be rewarded with better responses. Kind regards, Andreas.
Re: exim and mtt probs continue
At 08:13 AM 11/18/00, you wrote: i continue to have problems setting up my email configuration. I have run eximconfig but have had trouble working out how to answer some of the questions I am not sure what is meant by some of the terms i.e. what is my visible mail name. To be honest i have used the default settings to set up exim i have no idea in most cases whether this is correct. I am dialling up to my isp using pon, I can't fine where to set up the isp smtp info re sending mail. Isn't this one of the last questions eximconfig asks you? Think so. Fetchmail seems to be ok but where does it write the emails to. I have installed mutt but when i run it i get the message that there is no /var/spool/mail/jmj directory jmj being my user name. Apparently exim should set this up for me/ I am truly at a loss. I've just spent several evenings puzzling over an identical or similar problem. The usual location for mailboxes (which are files, not directories, as I initially thought) is /var/spool/mail. For reasons I don't understand, the default Debian 2.2 setup makes this a symbolic (I think symbolic, not hard) link to /var/mail. You see this from ls -l /var/spool which shows mail - ../mail at the end of the line for mail. Mailboxes are thus in /var/mail. To see them do ls -l /var/mail The mailbox for some_user should be named and owned by some_user, the group should be mail, and the permissions should be -rw-rw. You may have to create these files using touch, chown, chgrp and chmod to get the ownership and permissions right. If I remember rightly, touch some_user chown new_user new_user chgrp mail new_user chmod 660 new_user will do it. In my case, I messed up the default configuration and had the same problem with mutt not seeing my mailbox. Creating the above link and file solved the problem. Mutt is also supposed to make a file called .muttrc in my home directory but this does not exist, apparently without it i cant specify which MTA i am using. I don't think you need to specify exim in .muttrc. If I understand correctly, exim appends incoming mail to user's mailboxes in /var/spool/mail or, in this case, /var/mail. mutt looks for it in /var/spool/mail, which is linked to /var/mail. What mutt needs to know is where to look for the mailbox, not what MTA put the mail there. Is there a mutt configuration script. If you have any idea how to proceed. You probably don't need this to solve your immediate problem. I don't know of any script, but see the mutt home page for examples of configuration files. Go to http://www.mutt.org/ and more specifically http://www.mutt.org/links.html#config and perhaps more specifically still the (especially for newbies) link to Telsa Gwynne's site. If it would be easier to use another MTA i am happy to do so although i hear that exim is the best. Again, this probably isn't your problem, so suggest sticking with exim for the present. To investigate problems, look at the main exim log file, /var/log/exim/mainlog using more, less, vi, etc. Initially I had the mailbox locking problem described in Q0201 of the exim FAQ (http://www.exim.org/FAQ.html). After creating the link and mailbox files described above this problem stopped. thanks for your help very confused Hang in there! I'm trying to set up unix style email with exim/fetchmail/mutt/procmail after many years of Eudora. It isn't coming easily, in part because documenation, voluminous as it is, doesn't address all someone new to this setup needs to know. I'm still puzzling out my own setup. jm
