I use procmail/fetchmail/smail for all my mail handlings...
if I send an email locally, I would have something like from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and virge is my machine name. when I send an email to the outside world, I
always use pine, and set the From: header to an email address in my
uni. And my
Hi,
some sites mail spam rejects my mail because my hostname is not
qualified.
So how do I config smail to make sure my host name is qualified. I
had a look at the man page about /etc/smail/qualify... but don't really
understand what to do with it...
Thx.
Shao.
Hi,
some sites mail spam rejects my mail because my hostname is not
qualified.
So how do I config smail to make sure my host name is qualified. I
had a look at the man page about /etc/smail/qualify... but don't really
understand what to do with it...
Hard to answer without
Hi,
from the ISP's mailserver instead. (man smail, look
at /usr/doc/smail, this isn't exactly easy)
an easier way could be to install exim als MTA. There you have to
uncommend the last two lines in exim.conf and create a file called
email-addresses in /etc/ with
user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi to all ,
every 20 minutes linux give me this message
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 00:03:01 +0200 (CEST)
From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] runq
runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted
what's that mean ? where is the problem? where
I did a similar thing to get my smail working.
I use exmh/mh for email. My problem is that the sender field is set to
[EMAIL PROTECTED](FQDN). The user is jmb (or whoever I'm logged
in as) and the hostname is achimota. The network I'm on (from my dial-up ISP)
is ziplink.net. My FQDN ends
I did a similar thing to get my smail working.
I use exmh/mh for email. My problem is that the sender field is set to
[EMAIL PROTECTED](FQDN). The user is jmb (or whoever I'm logged
in as) and the hostname is achimota. The network I'm on (from my dial-up
ISP)
is ziplink.net. My
/smailconfig --force
Ignoring existing Smail configuration.
I can do certain kinds of automatic configuration of your mail system, by
asking you a number of questions. Later you may to confirm and/or correct
your answers. In any case, comprehensive information on configuring Smail is
in smail(5
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 12:20:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi ,
I have a mail account at my ISP which is SMTP. Can somebody please
explain to me how to set up smail so that I can send and receive mails
from my machine...Right now, I am using netscape mail, but not very
comfy with
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 02:42:51AM +0300, Shaul wrote:
Hi ,
I have a mail account at my ISP which is SMTP. Can somebody please explain
to me how to set up smail so that I can send and receive mails from my
machine...Right now, I am using netscape mail, but not very comfy with
that.
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 12:52:52AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 12:20:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi ,
I have a mail account at my ISP which is SMTP. Can somebody please
explain to me how to set up smail so that I can send and receive mails
from my
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 03:48:27PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Both your From: and Reply-To: were [EMAIL PROTECTED] here.
I don't know what a Return-Path is, nor why an MUA would be using it.
It's my understanding that a Return-Path is the header which
determines where smtp errors go. For
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 01:23:14AM -0500, Eric wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 03:48:27PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Both your From: and Reply-To: were [EMAIL PROTECTED] here.
I don't know what a Return-Path is, nor why an MUA would be using it.
It's my understanding that a Return-Path
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 04:07:45PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 01:23:14AM -0500, Eric wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 03:48:27PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Both your From: and Reply-To: were [EMAIL PROTECTED] here.
I don't know what a Return-Path is, nor why
Hi ,
I have a mail account at my ISP which is SMTP. Can somebody please explain to
me how to set up smail so that I can send and receive mails from my
machine...Right now, I am using netscape mail, but not very comfy with that. (I
did look at the HOWTO, but can not make head or tail out of it)
I need to rewrite some of my config files, and I just
wanted to know why you have to use $($user$) in some
places instead of just $user?
Adam Klein
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On Tue, Jan 13, 1998 at 09:57:55PM -0800, Adam Klein wrote:
I need to rewrite some of my config files, and I just
wanted to know why you have to use $($user$) in some
places instead of just $user?
Afaik $( expands to ( and $) expands to ).
Regards
Joey
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/ Martin Schulze *
I have a similar problem.
In the meantime, I am using the internet site option (the first one). And I
am adding to my mail the Reply-to field, where I am write my ISP address
([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
I tried to follow something that was posted on the list, which suggets adding
some fields to the
I have what must be a common mail setup, but I've never figured out the
right way to configure smail.
I connect to the Internet from my home machine by ppp through a commercial
service provider, with dynamic IP.
I have all my mail (to me from other people) sent to my account on the ISP,
where I
David S. Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What's the right way to do this? Thanks in advance for any help.
Try using `internet site', but setting the smarthost to your isp's
mail server and selecting `always route through smarthost' or whatever
it is that's similar to that on the list.
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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote:
David S. Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What's the right way to do this? Thanks in advance for any help.
Try using `internet site', but setting the smarthost to your isp's
mail server and selecting `always route through smarthost' or whatever
it
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Andrew J Tarr wrote:
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote:
David S. Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What's the right way to do this? Thanks in advance for any help.
Try using `internet site', but setting the smarthost to your isp's
mail server and selecting
I configured smail using smailconfig using the following options:
...
Now I look for a way to rewrite my from line using smail. Without any
interaction it would generate [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is obviously wrong
(as my really pop account is called [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Does smail
I configured smail using smailconfig using the following options:
ail generated on this system will have `bln.de' used
as the host part (after the @) in the From: field and similar places.
Message-ID's, Received lines, etc. will use the system's canonical
hostname, which is currently set
Kevin M. Bealer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to configure smail. I have read the documentation,
searched the source code for an hour or so, and tried to use the
generic configuration script at different settings.
I have been at this for several days -- my mail is still bouncing.
I am trying to configure smail. I have read the documentation,
searched the source code for an hour or so, and tried to use the
generic configuration script at different settings.
I have been at this for several days -- my mail is still bouncing.
I am on a system which does not have a
Your problem is that you will need to modify your hostname every time you
connect to your PPP host so that your reverse lookup will match your
hostname or you will never be able to send/recieve mail.
There IS an alternative.
If you can find someone that will act as a smarthost for you that is
My preferred login on my machine is not the same as my userid
with my ISP. Smail uses my login on this machine to form the
return_path_field. As a result, I can not receive messages from
mailer-daemons about undeliverable mail, etc.
Is there any way to make smail create the
On Jul 14, Robert D. Hilliard wrote
In smailconfig, you must choose option (1), then after several
more questions, you give your ISP's mail server's name in response to:
...
This will give the results that I think the original poster was
looking for.
Yes, it will. I was faced with
MS == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(3) Satellite system:
No mail is to be delivered or routed here. Any mail generated
on this system is sent to a central mail switch using SMTP.
MS Have you tried this?
This one insists on sending mail to root on the local system to the
ISP i
Is there a simple way to get smail to forward mail to my ISP ?
Currently it appears to do it's own name resolution and delivery,
under Win 95 all mail got sent to the ISP to do this.
I am currently getting some delivery timeouts. I'd rather pass the
non-local delivery to my ISP. I still want
Alex Monaghan writes:
Is there a simple way to get smail to forward mail to my ISP ?
Currently it appears to do it's own name resolution and delivery,
under Win 95 all mail got sent to the ISP to do this.
I am currently getting some delivery timeouts. I'd rather pass the
non-local
On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Martin Schulze wrote:
Alex Monaghan writes:
Is there a simple way to get smail to forward mail to my ISP ?
Currently it appears to do it's own name resolution and delivery,
under Win 95 all mail got sent to the ISP to do this.
I am currently getting some
Bob Nielsen writes:
I'd like to do the same thing, but I don't get that option from
smailconfig (smail_3.2-3 from 1.3.1):
You must choose one of the options below:
(1) Internet site: you send and receive Internet mail on this
machine, using SMTP over TCP/IP.
(2) UUCP to smarthost
In smailconfig, you must choose option (1), then after several
more questions, you give your ISP's mail server's name in response to:
Do you have a smarthost available (and accessible via SMTP) ?
A smarthost is a system to which you forward mail you don't want to
deliver yourself; it
Alan,
I should have answered this too.
Mail is sent by the runq command, which in turn is run from
/var/spool/cron/crontabs/mail. This should have a command like
3,23,43 * * * * runq
To fix this, su to mail and run
crontab -e
If this is not the trouble we need expert help.
Lindsay
A few weeks ago, my system suffered an incident involving a full disk
during which time there were a number of pretty major looking runq
related errors.
Since then, my system has been unable to clear out the mail queue. I
have resorted to using the smtp-mail.el facility in emacs.
Can someone
A few weeks ago, my system suffered an incident involving a full disk
during which time there were a number of pretty major looking runq
related errors.
Since then, my system has been unable to clear out the mail queue. I
have resorted to using the smtp-mail.el facility in emacs.
Can someone
A few weeks ago, my system suffered an incident involving a full disk
during which time there were a number of pretty major looking runq
related errors.
Since then, my system has been unable to clear out the mail queue. I
have resorted to using the smtp-mail.el facility in emacs.
Can someone
A few weeks ago, my system suffered an incident involving a full disk
during which time there were a number of pretty major looking runq
related errors.
Since then, my system has been unable to clear out the mail queue. I
have resorted to using the smtp-mail.el facility in emacs.
Can someone
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