RE: Exim as default mailer

1998-11-12 Thread Moore, Paul
Thanks to all who offered help and comments. I now have exim as my MTA, and I'm very pleased with the results. The filtering facilities are nice - replaced what I previously used procmail for. I don't think there's anything I needed to do but couldn't with smail/procmail, which I can now do with ex

RE: Exim as default mailer

1998-11-11 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
Here's the exim setup I have for my dialup system, and it works brilliantly (I recieve on an average 700 messages daily for all the Linux, Debian newsgroups I'm subscribed to): 1. Have exmh activated via xinetd for dynamic startup. 2. Have atd start my dialup connection using pon 1 every hour. 3.

Exim configuration for dialup users (was Re: Exim as default mailer)

1998-11-11 Thread Mike Orr
On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 11:38:16AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > >As I have a single-user home PC with dial-up access to my ISP, I fall > >squarely into the category of users for whom Exim is "not particularly > >well-suited". Is this a real problem, o

Re: Exim as default mailer

1998-11-11 Thread Paul Slootman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I was concerned when I >initially looked at it by the statement in the (version 2) manual >(section 39, "Intermittently connected hosts") where it says "Exim was >designed for use on permanently connected hosts, and so it is not >particularly well-suited

Re: Exim as default mailer

1998-11-10 Thread Bobby Donnell
I decided to move to exim recently for my MTA, however i found that the debian package does not set it up correctly for local delivery. The exim manual says that the exim binary must be setuid to root but I, as of yet, have to figure out where i should set it since it uses inetd to run. It can eit

Exim as default mailer

1998-11-10 Thread Moore, Paul
Hi, There seems to be a lot of talk about moving to Exim as the default mailer for Debian. While I feel like I should support Exim (as I used to go to Cambridge, whwre it was developed :-) I was concerned when I initially looked at it by the statement in the (version 2) manual (section 39, "Intermi