Re: exim - config & timing of the queue - a few Q's :)

2007-12-13 Thread David Brodbeck
On Dec 13, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Bob Goldberg wrote: Apparently, the que is not used for "local" delivery, and is only used to send Email on to its final destination. So, in my application, I expect that ALL deliverable Email is placed in the que. I read that there is immediate email delivery,

Re: Exim config on multihomed machine

2007-07-16 Thread koffiejunkie
Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:47:46AM +0100, koffiejunkie wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:05:15AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: Any one else doing this. How can I configure exim to have different primary host names dependant on which relay it is us

Re: Exim config on multihomed machine

2007-07-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:47:46AM +0100, koffiejunkie wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:05:15AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: >>> Any one else doing this. How can I configure exim to have different >>> primary host names dependant on which relay it is using ? > [snip] >> Any bo

Re: Exim config on multihomed machine

2007-07-15 Thread koffiejunkie
Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:05:15AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: Any one else doing this. How can I configure exim to have different primary host names dependant on which relay it is using ? [snip] Any body know how to setup a load balanced router in exim ? I cannot speak for E

Re: Exim config on multihomed machine

2007-07-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:05:15AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > Not sure if this is the best place to start, but I have a deb amd64 lenny > machine behind a firewall, with 2 isp connections. I originally setup exim to > relay via either of the isp providers (let it choose), my problem recen

Re: Exim Config.

2004-02-11 Thread paul.murphy
I have more or less bottomed this out. So I thought I'd reply (to myself) in case anyone else has similar problems. I don't fully understand what seems to be going but heres how I got it going. The address data in the alias file (e.g. bertsmith) is unqualified with a host name. Exim therefore qua

Re: exim config questions

2002-12-19 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Cheryl" == Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Cheryl> these are questions that surface for me every time I do an Cheryl> installation and i'm still confused about them Cheryl> 1. qualify-domain and local_domains;a If I put my isp's Cheryl> domain, it works but if I send

Re: exim config questions

2002-12-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:58:59AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > these are questions that surface for me every time I do an installation > and i'm still confused about them > 1. qualify-domain and local_domains;a > If I put my isp's domain, it works but if I send to somebody else at the > same doma

Re: exim config b0rken

2002-04-14 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:44:20AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > my problem is that exim isn't sending out *any* email, > (...) > i'm attaching my exim.conf file, and hopefully it can help you > help me. There is no attachment. I recommend to run eximconfig, at least for me it worked well.

Re: exim config b0rken

2002-04-12 Thread John Habermann
I had a similar problem with kmail when I set exim up. I was able to send mail out using balsa or mail but all I got from kmail was unrecognised protocol. I ended up deleting kmails mail folder and then setting kmail up again. It then seemed to work fine with exim so I thought there must have b

Re: exim config b0rken

2002-04-12 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 1:44:20 EDT "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > and i'm trying to run exim an SMTP server. the weird thing is, > a few days ago, exim was sending mail. > > i'm attaching my exim.conf file, I don't see no attachment. What helped me a lot while configurin

Re: Exim config question

2002-03-01 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:25:34PM -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: > Just got a basic install running and during the course of setting mail > with the base-config tool, I think I answered something wrong but not > sure what would have been right. Or where to hand edit it. > > I have a fair bit of expe

Re: Exim config question

2002-03-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 28/02/02 Harry Putnam did speaketh: > I think I got most of this set alright except when I send a mail to > myself at [EMAIL PROTECTED], exim tells me it is delivering locally > and I have it back instantly. That is it never goes to newsguy, or > thru my smart_host. Edit your exim.conf fi

Re: Exim config question

2002-03-01 Thread Patrick Kirk
Run eximconfig. Its a neat little script that will take you through setting up. On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 03:25, Harry Putnam wrote: > Just got a basic install running and during the course of setting mail > with the base-config tool, I think I answered something wrong but not > sure what would hav

Re: Exim config question

2002-03-01 Thread Bob Thibodeau
There is a way to make it go through your smarthost, but I forget what it is. I had the opposite problem. Messages being sent locally weren't being delivered until I logged on to my ISP. All this to say that if you really want that behavior, it's available. I just can't tell you how. Bob On Thu,

Re: exim config

2001-06-02 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:56:22PM +, Nic Strong wrote: > I have just installed exim on my box and it seems to be causing problems > when using fetchmail to get my mail from my ISP. > > I configured exim using smarthost to deliver outgoing mail (suitable for > dialup option). But when using f

Re: exim config probs

1999-12-05 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > > Did you make sure that you have set up exim to do relaying for your > > internal network? You neet to put the network address when eximconf > > asks you about relaying local networks. I 've never set this up > > before, but you can take a look at a Li

Re: exim config probs

1999-12-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > Did you make sure that you have set up exim to do relaying for your > internal network? You neet to put the network address when eximconf > asks you about relaying local networks. I 've never set this up > before, but you can take a look at a Linux Gazette

Re: exim config probs

1999-12-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 12/03/99 10:23AM, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > I'm having some troubles with exim configuration. > I had set a masquerade box, that will work as smtp server for > incoming and outgoing messages. > I've (tried) to configure exim (w/ eximconfig) so that internal > machines

Re: Exim config (was Re: turning off smtp and sunrpc services)

1999-11-22 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 03:52:04PM -0500, Salman Ahmed wrote > > "l" == lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > l> You can use the fuser command to find out which processes are > l> opening those ports. > > Ok. I checked these services using fuser and here is what I got: > > @phoenix:[

Re: EXIM CONFIG

1999-09-20 Thread Peter Mickle
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 20-Sep-99 Peter Mickle wrote: > >> > >> -- > >> Andrew > >> > > i am on a static IP address, but some domains will not accept > > mail with a sender header that is not from a qualified domain, my > > sender header read [EMAIL PROTECTED], eben though the F

Re: EXIM CONFIG

1999-09-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Sep-99 Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 02:58:57AM -, Pollywog wrote: >> Why remove the sender header? Is it because you are on a dynamic IP >> address? > > Yup. My ISP won't take my mail unless it can resolve the sender header > to a valid address. It's kind of stu

Re: EXIM CONFIG

1999-09-20 Thread Peter Mickle
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 20-Sep-99 Eric G . Miller wrote: > > I couldn't get it to remove the sender header either. Instead, I use a > > rewrite rule: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\ > > > >

Re: EXIM CONFIG

1999-09-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 02:58:57AM -, Pollywog wrote: > Why remove the sender header? Is it because you are on a dynamic IP > address? Yup. My ISP won't take my mail unless it can resolve the sender header to a valid address. It's kind of stupid, since I could forge any old address that

Re: EXIM CONFIG

1999-09-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Sep-99 Eric G . Miller wrote: > I couldn't get it to remove the sender header either. Instead, I use a > rewrite rule: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\ > > {$value}fail} Frs > >

Re: EXIM CONFIG

1999-09-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 09:39:14PM -0400, Peter Mickle wrote: > hi and thanks in advance to anyone who can help... > > i use exim, fetchmail, and mutt to handle mail over a dial-up/ppp > list a while ago. everything works well except removing the sender header. > my exim.conf file has > > remot

Re: Exim config question

1999-07-25 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gary, > > The problem is with exim which thinks that mach1 is your entire > domain name. Here is a snippet from the "ROUTERS CONFIGURATION" section of > exim.conf : [snip] > route_list = * $domain byname [snip] That "byname" was all I needed. I'm

Re: Exim config question

1999-07-25 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Patrick Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Most everything you need shouldbe in this article... > www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html A nice article. Unfortunately it really doesn't cover my situation. My "secondary" host, that I can't get to send email, is also a Debian box while Jan had

Re: Exim config question

1999-07-25 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I'm in the process of getting a little home network set up. One of the > >hosts, call it mach2, won't have a connection to the internet, just > >to other hosts on my home network. The other host, call it mach1, will > >occasionally connect to the interne

Re: Exim config question

1999-07-25 Thread Jor-el
Gary, The problem is with exim which thinks that mach1 is your entire domain name. Here is a snippet from the "ROUTERS CONFIGURATION" section of exim.conf : # # Lets deliver mail to remote users on the megadodo.umb domain # qualify : driver = domainlist route_list = "^[A-

Re: Exim config question

1999-07-25 Thread Patrick Kirk
Most everything you need shouldbe in this article... www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html Patrick - Original Message - From: Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, 25 July 1999 18:23 Subject: Re: Exim config question > On 25 Jul 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:

Re: Exim config question

1999-07-25 Thread Philip Lehman
On 25 Jul 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: >I'm in the process of getting a little home network set up. One of the >hosts, call it mach2, won't have a connection to the internet, just >to other hosts on my home network. The other host, call it mach1, will >occasionally connect to the internet via dia

Re: Exim config problems

1999-06-10 Thread Peter Mickle
apologies for further questions on the same topic. I am using Mutt with exim and fetchmail with a dial-up account with an isp - panix.com. i originally configured with the "interactive" exim configuration utility and for a while, everything worked fine. when i installed gnome, it caused a few probl

Re: Exim config problems

1999-06-09 Thread Gregory Wood
Matthew Gregan wrote: > Greetings... > > I've tried searching the debian-user list archive already, and found some > messages which probably contain the answer I'm after, but it seems that the > actual messages aren't available, so I can't read them... (It was working a > week ago when I last t

Re: Exim config problems

1999-06-09 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 11:01:39AM -0500, Marc Mongeon wrote: > These three settings are important in exim.conf: > > qualify_domain = ihug.co.nz > qualify_recipient = localhost > local_domains = localhost Thanks, that seems to have done the trick... I had wondered if 'qualify_recipient' was part

Re: Exim config problems

1999-06-08 Thread Marc Mongeon
These three settings are important in exim.conf: qualify_domain = ihug.co.nz qualify_recipient = localhost local_domains = localhost Assuming your computer does not have a fully-qualified domain name (most dial-up users don't). If you do have a FQDN, use that instead of localhost. So, people wh

Re: exim config

1998-11-11 Thread Paul Slootman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >I previously used sendmail for my mail needs, but I am trying out exim. >However I am having one difficulty - is there a way to specify a place that >mail for unknown users should be forwarded to? I can't seem to find a way >to do it. Add the following