Re: Email embarrasment

2001-04-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 21:02:46 +0200, Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It is an dialup system using exim as mta. > >I do not know where to look for the problem. What do the exim logs /var/log/exim/{mainlog|rejectlog) say? Most graphical clients deliver e-mail to the MTA via SMTP while cons

Re: Email permissions - was Email embarrasment

2001-04-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:24:35AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > The netscape message was missing from hs' mailq. Why? > > This is almost normal, I think: ... > So my guess from what you've said is that netscape is either being run

Re: Email permissions - was Email embarrasment

2001-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > Then I sent three test messages: one using xfmail (which is working > again), one using netscape and one using the mail-command from the > console. > > As user hs I did a mailq with the following result: ... > As root I did a mailq: .

Re: Email permissions - was Email embarrasment

2001-04-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:55:52AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > I removed her from the group mail > by editing the /etc/group file (is there another way of doing this?). gpasswd -d user group -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgphdVaJk0Mla.pgp Description: PGP signature

Email permissions - was Email embarrasment

2001-04-14 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:14:39PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:22:42PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > Thanks Tim. This helped me to discover that she could see the mail > > queue using mailq when she is root and not as normal user. Adding her > > to the group mail seem

Re: Email embarrasment (Solved - maybe)

2001-04-13 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:22:42PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:37:39PM -0500, Tim Kelley wrote: > > > Try telnetting directly to the smtp server on localhost and on the > > ISP and try to send a message, this will help diagnose the problem. > > If this works, then the p

Re: Email embarrasment (Solved - maybe)

2001-04-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:37:39PM -0500, Tim Kelley wrote: > Try telnetting directly to the smtp server on localhost and on the > ISP and try to send a message, this will help diagnose the problem. > If this works, then the problem is in your exim or MUA configuration ... > Then check the mail o

Re: Email embarrasment

2001-04-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 09:18:54PM +0200, Sebastiaan wrote: > > she is not sending mail as root, isn't she? I have heard that the mail No -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 082 782 0336. Posbus 4668, Tygervallei 7536 "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged swo

Re: Email embarrasment

2001-04-12 Thread MH
> "Johann" == Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm far from being an exim expert, but maybe we are able to clarify things together... Johann> Sorry for the long message, but I do not know how to Johann> explain my problem much shorter. That's OK. [...] Johann> and now she

Re: Email embarrasment

2001-04-12 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thursday 12 April 2001 14:02, Johann Spies wrote: Have you tried using her ISP's mail server for an MTA, instead of localhost? Unless you are using some MUA that does not have the ability to use a remote MTA there is no point and it just overcomplicates things. Try telnetting directly to th

Re: Email embarrasment

2001-04-12 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, she is not sending mail as root, isn't she? I have heard that the mail goes directly to /dev/null with some installations (well, had it with RedHat, I was already discouraged sending mail as root when I went Debian). Greetz, Sebastiaan On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Johann Spies wrote: > Sorry for t

Email embarrasment

2001-04-12 Thread Johann Spies
Sorry for the long message, but I do not know how to explain my problem much shorter. My daughter has a laptop and when she complained about the instability of Windows 95 I suggested that she try out Linux. She agreed and I installed Stormix Hail on her laptop - what a pleasure to install Linux u