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

Email (was Setting up Exim was Setting up Sendmail)

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 believe it is set up properly as I used the defaults mostly. I can

RE: Setting up Sendmail

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Re: Setting up Sendmail

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Re: Setting up Sendmail

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Michael Olds wrote: > Hello again, > > First, thanks to all who responded with suggestions. I'm still working on > Sendmail. I have it working half way following Oliver's suggestions ...I can > send, but I am not receiving anything, either locally or over the Internet. Hi,

Setting up exim: was Setting up Sendmail

Hello, Not because I gave up on Sendmail, but because of another problem (for some reason (I believe it had to do with uninstalling Sendmail which I did in order to start from scratch and install the package from source) when I shut down and restarted, Apache was unavailable, all the files are in

Re: Setting up Sendmail

On Friday 27 September 2002 10:50 pm, Justin Ryan wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 22:07, Jason Majors wrote: > > Try exim. It's easier to set up. > > Anyone know if exim supports SMTP AUTH? > yes. check out www.exim.org. it's worth the visit. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Setting up Sendmail - nano-howto

hi ya michael i gave up on any/all pre-packaged sendmail-*.deb if you download/install the latest from sendmail.org or exim.org or postix.or getc.. you should be able to get sendmail working out of the box cd /usr/local/src tar zxvfp sendmail-*.tgz cd sendmail-*

Re: Setting up Sendmail

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 22:07, Jason Majors wrote: > Try exim. It's easier to set up. Anyone know if exim supports SMTP AUTH? I've been using Sendmail on my woody box simply because I could not get SMTP AUTH working with postfix. any luck with either? BTW - if you check the bug tracking database

Re: Setting up Sendmail

On Friday 27 September 2002 05:08 pm, Michael Olds wrote: > Hello again, > > Woody. Can send but not receive mail. > > I checked with my DNS server and I believe it is set up properly. > > This seems to be the problem: > > in var/log/mail/mail.err > No local mailer defined > QueueDirectory (Q) opt

RE: Setting up Sendmail

iss a link? Best Wishes! Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org -Original Message- From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 4:55 PM To: Michael Olds Cc: Oliver Fuchs; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Setting up Sendmail hi ya to receive email cd /etc

RE: Setting up Sendmail

Hello again, Woody. Can send but not receive mail. I checked with my DNS server and I believe it is set up properly. This seems to be the problem: in var/log/mail/mail.err No local mailer defined QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set and /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.errors /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/

RE: Setting up Sendmail

hi ya to receive email cd /etc/mail ln -s local-host-names sendmail.cw - be sure your domain is listed in the file make sendmail - stop/start for popping email stuff... - make sure you can "telnet localhost 110" - than you shoul

RE: Setting up Sendmail

nts, but I have no idea what I should be telling the Linux machine about loading mail to local/remote users). Best Wishes! Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org -Original Message- From: Oliver Fuchs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: Setting up Sendmail

hi ya michael sendmail howto w/ antispam stuff w/ examples http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/sendmail.gwif.html c ya alvin On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Michael Olds wrote: > Hello, > > Woody. > > I am having some difficulty getting Sendmail up and running. > I installed the program apparently

Re: Setting up Sendmail

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Michael Olds wrote: > Hello, > > Woody. > > I am having some difficulty getting Sendmail up and running. > I installed the program apparently with no problems. I ran: sendmailconfig > after the install, also apparently no problems, no errors reported. But > nothing works ei

Re: Setting up Sendmail

Michael Olds said: > I have uninstalled and reinstalled the program several times and I always > end up at this spot. Does anyone know how I get out of this? it's probably not what you want to hear, another user suggested trying exim. I can tell you I first encountered this "problem" back in May

RE: Setting up Sendmail

Well I'm listening. If I can't get it set up reasonably soon I will probably go with Exim. Best Wishes! Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org -Original Message- From: Bob Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 8:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: Setting up Sendmail

Michael Olds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-26 20:02:54 -0700]: > I am having some difficulty getting Sendmail up and running. I know that Sendmail has been the workhorse of the Internet for many years. I have configured Sendmail cf files by hand for years and loved the recent m4 configuration. I

Re: Setting up Sendmail

Try exim. It's easier to set up. On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:02:54PM -0700, Michael Olds scribbled... > Hello, > > Woody. > > I am having some difficulty getting Sendmail up and running. > I installed the program apparently with no problems. I ran: sendmailconfig > after the install, also apparen

Setting up Sendmail

Hello, Woody. I am having some difficulty getting Sendmail up and running. I installed the program apparently with no problems. I ran: sendmailconfig after the install, also apparently no problems, no errors reported. But nothing works either. So I looked in /etc/mail/ and there is no sendmail.c

Setting up sendmail for uucp delivery.

I have a slightly odd configuration that I would like to set up. My system at home is set up so that it is not connected to the net all the time and currently my sendmail at home and at work are set up smtp only. The server here at work just hammers away trying to dump it's queue until I

Re: Setting up sendmail for uucp delivery.

Chris Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : When sendmail installed on the server at the shop I told it to : be able to use uucp but I don't see anything in the sendmail.cf that : would allow this. I figure that it should be simple to add a couple : of lines to the sendmail.cf to take care o