> I'm familiar with, and comfortable with, Sendmail. So, when Debian
> tries to install Exim I just say, "No thank you", and install
> Sendmail. It was no problem at all.
I think... based on what I've heard here on this topic, that If I Had
It To Do Over Again, that is what I would do also.
Bu
s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Nah. Debian's real sane that way. If you install exim, it first
uninstalls your other MTA.
You mean, it *tries* to uninstall it... all it takes is one screw-up
to put me in the O-zone with things like that. What if (*just*
for insatan
Carlos Sousa wrote:
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 17:15:23 +0800 John Summerfield wrote:
(replying manually to the list, as I suspect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
won't be a good recipient for my purposes ;)
:-)
See what it resolves to.
Since tbird doesn't have "reply to list" I "reply to all" then prune.
Setting r
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> > Nah. Debian's real sane that way. If you install exim, it first
> > uninstalls your other MTA.
>
> You mean, it *tries* to uninstall it... all it takes is one screw-up
> to put me in the O-zone with things like that. What if (*just*
> for insatance) the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
btw, "apt-cache search exim" mentions exim-doc. Highly recommended.
Okay - now you've touched on something I was curious about in an earlier
thread, and I've dug into it some more:
The "man" page for "exim" also mentions "exim-doc". I loaded the
"exim-doc" package
> Nah. Debian's real sane that way. If you install exim, it first
> uninstalls your other MTA.
You mean, it *tries* to uninstall it... all it takes is one screw-up
to put me in the O-zone with things like that. What if (*just*
for insatance) the "other" MTA used different versions of some pac
> What do you mean, "may come back ... again"? I believe sendmail is still
> the most widely used MTA on the Internet. It's never "gone away".
Well, I don't keep track of these things in detail. I started hacking
"sendmail" in 1984 or something, I forget. It looked like it worked
OK to me. Then
hi ya
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
> I've answered the config questions of course
> But I'm not sure if I answered it right...
>
> Here is my "sendmail.mc"
> Is there any thing wrong?
you didn't answer the "domain questions" properly ... and supported
virtual hosts
- it'd be e
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:07:43 +0800 Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
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> ...
> I've answered the config questions of course
> But I'm not sure if I answered it right...
I think the Debian sendmail package maintainer has already contacted
you about this matter.
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:07:43 +0800 Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
> Here is my "sendmail.mc"
> Is there any thing wrong?
>
> ...
> LOCAL_CONFIG
> FEATURE(`nullclient', NONE)dnl
>
> LOCAL_CONFIG
> ## Custom configurations below (will be preserved)
This appears to be the configuration for local mail only.
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Carlos Sousa wrote:
| The sendmail package asks you a few questions upon installation, so
| as to configure it properly for your machine. Don't you remember
| answering them? You really should take software installation a lot
| less lightly...
I've ans
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:23:57 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > It is available. Fire up one of the installers, turn off what
> > you don't want, turn on what you do, then let 'er rip. You may
> > need to be in something like "Custom Install Mode" or something
> > to get this, but that's just
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:23:57 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:52:17 -0600 s. keeling wrote:
> > Very true, but it is your box. I imagine the sendmail package
> > maintainer needs love just like the others. :-) Then again, maybe
> > not. He may just be doing it so he doesn
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 17:15:23 +0800 John Summerfield wrote:
(replying manually to the list, as I suspect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
won't be a good recipient for my purposes ;)
> I did try
> sendmail on woody, but discovered it's brken, and having heard good
> reports of Postfix, I tried that and that's
Carlos Sousa wrote:
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:18:54 +0100 Thomas Adam wrote:
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 06:15:35PM +0800, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
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And I don't know how to config Sendmail in Debian, too.
Let's see now you went against the grain as it we
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> > It is available. Fire up one of the installers, turn off what you
> > don't want, turn on what you do, then let 'er rip. You may need to be
> > in something like "Custom Install Mode" or something to get this, but
>
> I thought about that, but, (1) since "
hehe... I think I'll step aside and watch this one :)
But, for the record, I'd like to point out that I missed the 1st post
of this - dug around and found it... I replied directly to the
originator and as of yet had heard nothing.
We now return control of your flamefest to you (Outer Limits, a
> It is available. Fire up one of the installers, turn off what you
> don't want, turn on what you do, then let 'er rip. You may need to be
> in something like "Custom Install Mode" or something to get this, but
> that's just to save newbie butts. You can do what you want to.
I thought about t
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> Well, I'd already learned to use "sendmail", so I was sort of expecting
> that the Debian install would make it available, but it installed "exim"
It is available. Fire up one of the installers, turn off what you
don't want, turn on what you do, then let 'er
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:44:04 +0100, "Thomas Adam"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:39:23AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> > You mean, the OP decided for himself which MTA to use, instead
> > of just accepting whatever MTA the current Debian Cabal chooses
> > to shove down his t
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:15:35 +0800 Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
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Please try and supply the most information possible. After
reading your mail I still haven't a clue where you're coming from.
> I installed a Sendmail to my Debian with "apt-get install"
>
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:39:23AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
> You mean, the OP decided for himself which MTA to use, instead
> of just accepting whatever MTA the current Debian Cabal chooses
> to shove down his throat?
Oh, absolutely. Choice is everything, but would you really install
an MTA you
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:18:54 +0100 Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 06:15:35PM +0800, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > And I don't know how to config Sendmail in Debian, too.
>
> Let's see now you went against the grain as it were, and
You mean, t
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 06:15:35PM +0800, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
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> And I don't know how to config Sendmail in Debian, too.
Let's see now you went against the grain as it were, and
installed Sendmail, which you don't know, raher than using Exim?
Interesting
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