Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 18:32, Tony Crawford wrote: > > Mario Vukelic wrote (on 13 Dec 2001 at 8:25): > > > > > The ugly thing with the rewriting is that the above rule in the > > > eximconfig-generated conf file rewrites always, regardless of > > > destination, i.e., also for local mail that stays on your machine or > > > network (Which means that replys to local mail want to go over the ISP > > > account, which is often not what's wanted). > > > > If your /etc/aliases contains the reverse table of your > > /etc/email-addresses, the local replies will stay local. > > > > If that doesn't turn out to be true for you, hit me up for > > config details: it works for me. > > Sounds cool! Excuse me if I just ask for the config details right away. > (and please feel free to ignore me if you don't want to dig it up; I > surely don't want to put my workload on you). I admit that I don't want > to spend another day on email config right now. Maybe the folks at > http://www.exim.org should be told too. This would made a great addition > to their FAQ. Their solution for the problem is, well, daunting, at > least for a little home net.
I'm a newbie. I just noticed this thread. I've missed any stuff that wasn't included in the above quote of the last message, so please excuse. I would like to use pure free software for email. In particular, Netscape seems to freeze my x-windows just as I am about to send an email. Not good. I hope this gets through. I use ppp and diald to connect to my ISP. What do I need to do to a new installation of Debian stable to get email? What should I use for reading email? Do I need something besides exim to get the email? e.g. fetchmail? I don't want anything fancy, just something that works while I learn about Debain. I have read enough of the documentation that got loaded during the install to know that I need help ... badly. Thanks, Paul Condon
