RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

Carel, Again thanks. I followed your instructions and all tests indicate Exim is up and running just fine. To finish this part of let's double check on ownership and protections. It should be like this: owner: userme group: mail protection: -rw-rw user: read, write

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 06:09:07AM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: > Good morning Carel, > > Live on the East Coast? nah, I'm living in the Netherlands (Europe), but I've strange sleeping habits:) > Thank you again for your careful attention to this! I have followed your > instructions and the outpu

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

Good morning Carel, Live on the East Coast? I use my W2KPro box as my workstation (On which I am reasonably competant -- I code html using TextPad which has no equal on Linux; and I watch the stockmarket using MetaStock charting), and I am reciving mail for this list on the Windows box. The two

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:35:37PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: > Carel: > > OK! I ran ls -l... with these results: > > mail 0 datedrafts > 0 inbox > 840 sentmail > 1613trash > > I looked in the trash directory and there was nothi

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

, not what is in /var/mail/userme -Original Message- From: Carel Fellinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:23 PM To: Debian-User@Lists. Debian. Org Subject: Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail) On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 07:41:39PM -0700

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

Carel, ls -1 /var/mail/userme ~userme/mail gives me a list of what is in /home/userme/Mail nothing like a number indicating how many mails, etc. Same same when i do ls -1 /var/mail/userme /home/userme/Mail and ls -1 /var/mail/userme /var/mail/userme I was mistaken about the permissions for /va

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:45:37PM -0500, Shyamal Prasad wrote: ... > One other thing: I noticed the word 'smarthost' in the log file > entries you posted on this. Does you use a smarthost or not? nah, that was an example log snipped from *me*, not from Michael -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUB

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

log and it looked to me like I was getting mail. -Original Message- From: Shyamal Prasad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 7:46 PM To: Debian-User@Lists. Debian. Org Subject: Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail) "Michael" ==

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

Hello, now Stephen and Carel, I checked again and /var/mai/userme is user userme group mail the settings for /etc/exim/exim.conf are: Local_delivery driver = appendfile group = mail mode = 0660 mode_fail_narrower = false envelope_to_add = true return_path_add = true file = /var/spool/mail/${loc

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

Stephen, These are the settings I have in Kmail (I have tried multiple variations) name: userme location: /var/mail/userme checked: Procmail locfile /var/mail/userme.lock I also tried: location: /home/userme/Mail and Mail/ nada Best Wishes! Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

"Michael" == Michael Olds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> Anyone have an idea as to what I should dig into next to Michael> get this up? Hi Mike, Could you share the DNS name used for the MX record with us (i.e the world known email address served by this exim host)? If you'd p

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

This one time, at band camp, Michael Olds said: > Stephen, > Thank you for this reply. Answers to your questions below your questions: > ls -l /var/mail/$USER will tell you if there's any mail there (if it > has a nonzero size, you do.) If there's mail there, then the problem > is the setup of y

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:05:03AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > user root? Gid? e bit? Are You using maildirs? > I think even for maildirs the owner of /var/mail/userme should be userme Moreover when the owner is root, it's highly unlikely that a mer userme will be able to read it. So ch

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

This one time, at band camp, Michael Olds said: > > > I have Exim set up. I believe it is set up properly as I used the > > > defaults mostly. I can send mail from my Linux box, but I cannot > > > receive mail, either internally or from the outside. The log > > > indicates that mail is being > >

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

Stephen, Thank you for this reply. Answers to your questions below your questions: -Original Message- From: Stephen Gran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 6:16 PM To: Debian-User@Lists. Debian. Org Subject: Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:02:00PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: ... > You say you've used the defaults during exim install/setup. Did you > choose the "Internet site" or "Satellite" or... > > So "Internet" or what was the #1 choice. yep, that's "Internet site". The proper general choice for what

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

This one time, at band camp, Michael Olds said: > Hello, > > Exim on Woody > > Trying again here, I posted on Friday afternoon and by Saturday I knew there > wasn't a hope of my request for help being seen. > > At this point I have again run out of possible solutions: > > I have Exim set up. I

RE: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

Carel, No problem replying off list, and thank you for replying, period, I have two machines one Windows 2000 Pro and one Linux. I will answer your questions, below your questions below: [ sorry for sending this offlist too, but as you have email problems I'm not s

Re: Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

[ sorry for sending this offlist too, but as you have email problems I'm not sure list trafic will reach you. If it does, pray tell and I wil adjust ] On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:47:48PM -0700, Michael Olds wrote: ... > I have Exim set up. I believe it is set up properly as I used the defaults