On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 05:19:59AM -0400, Scott Fitzgerald wrote: > Hrmm, looks like the best thing to do is explain what I am trying to > do, and see if I get an opinion on how to do it best. Let's try this > again. > > Exim looks like it can do anything, but also looks incredibly complex, > like learning a computer language on it's own. I am looking to avoid > spending the time to learn all those options.
Not so in Debian. dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config is what I use to solve my problem, which is similar to yours. What you need is a smarthost setting. If you still `fear' or don't have the patience to confgure exim4, you can as well use fetchmail or getmail to directly spawn procmail to deliver the message to /var/mail/<username> > I am currently a Kmail user, and am using my ISP's smtp server as well > as their pop server just fine. Then .fetchmailrc can look like this poll <popserver> with proto POP3 and options no dns user 'username' with pass 'password' is 'localuser' here mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" (Add keep to prevent deletion of messages onthe server) Done. For SMTP, use KMail or use a simple tool like msmtp. > I also noticed that in my last installation woody, I got several emails > from things like anacron and installing mozilla that were sent to my > /usr/var/username account which under this new default sarge installation > are conspicuously missing. This leads me to believe that somehow exim is > not yet set up on my system correctly, what could cause this? I see > nothing in my /var/mail/username account. Check whether root is aliased to your ordinary username in /etc/aliases. Also, I don't think you'll get any of these messages if exim isn't running. > I would like to keep my options open to learn mutt down the road, as well > as standard command line stuff, like using the command "mail." Great! > Thanks for any advice you can give me, Advice: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config -> choose Yes/No -> Mail sent by smarthost... -> Ok -> Ok -> Ok -> Ok -> mysmtpserver.myisp.com -> Yes -> Yes -> Yes or No. Then, edit /etc/email-addresses and add an entry like localusername: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finally, edit /etc/exim4/passwd.client and add an entry: mysmtpserver.myisp.com:server_username:password Restart exim4. Done. Didn't take me more than 5 minutes. I'd advice you to try it out. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
