Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-21 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi George Bonser; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Johann Spies wrote: I will support that. I have tried maybe a dozen times to get exim running without success. The documentation most of the time explains some technical detail that I am not interested in. I

Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-21 Thread AJT60
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote: Ok, the permissions appear wrong on /var/spool/mail. my /var/spool/mail directory looks like this: drwxrwsr-t 2 root mail 1024 Sep 19 23:43 mail I am not positive that is correct, just that this is how it is installed on my system

Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-21 Thread Paul Slootman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damir J. Naden) wrote: Hi George Bonser; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Johann Spies wrote: I will support that. I have tried maybe a dozen times to get exim running without success. The documentation most of the

Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-20 Thread AJT60
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote: Unfortunately, it doesn't work. I've also tried running eximconfig and selecting local system (mail is sent and recieved only locally). This doesn't work either. This is making me quite suspicious: maybe something else is broken. Is it possible

Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Andrew wrote: There must be tons of people in my position, on average a lot more email-stupid than those with complex networks to manage. There should really be a file saying here's what you do if you're a single machine user with a dial-up account. Maybe there is

MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-19 Thread Andrew
I've been running Linux for almost eighteen months now, and I still don't have a fully-functional MTA. I've been reading through the exim docs, and fooled around a bit, and I now know far more about MTAs and daemons than I ever did before, but I still don't seem to be any closer to solving my

Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-19 Thread AJT60
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Andrew wrote: Is this line right from exim.conf? local_domains = csc.canterbury.ac.nz:student.canterbury.ac.nz If you want all email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be delivered to the local machine, yes.

Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-19 Thread AJT60
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, George Bonser wrote: Right, because if you have a local user of foo, it tries to deliver it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOT [EMAIL PROTECTED] because that is what you have told it to do. It then finds that another server is the official mailhost for student.canterbury.ac.nz and

Re: MTA Frustration: Exim

1998-09-19 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sat, Sep 19, 1998 at 02:44:23PM +1200, Andrew wrote: [snip] There must be tons of people in my position, on average a lot more email-stupid than those with complex networks to manage. There should really be a file saying here's what you do if you're a single machine user with a dial-up