Re: Making documentation easier to find (was: Re: exim mail routing...)

2000-05-24 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 24 May 2000, David Henningsson wrote: > >what i mean, is, the reason newbies don't FIND the documentation > >is because it is an ORDEAL to do so. apprentice-guru status is > >required to know to search /usr/doc via zgrep AND /usr/share/doc > >AND info pages AND man pages AND apropos... >

Making documentation easier to find (was: Re: exim mail routing...)

2000-05-24 Thread David Henningsson
>what i mean, is, the reason newbies don't FIND the documentation >is because it is an ORDEAL to do so. apprentice-guru status is >required to know to search /usr/doc via zgrep AND /usr/share/doc >AND info pages AND man pages AND apropos... You're quite right. Could this be a solution? A new Deb

Re: Re[2]: exim mail routing...

2000-05-22 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 04:08 PM 05/22/2000 +0200, you wrote: > /var/spool/exim/messaglog: > 2000-05-21 22:27:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > local_delivery transport deferred: Permission denied: creating lock file > hitching post /var/spool/mail/admin.lock.alpha.cs.mum.edu.3928a93a.0ac9 > i had a sim

Re: Re[2]: exim mail routing...

2000-05-22 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> /var/spool/exim/messaglog: > 2000-05-21 22:27:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > local_delivery transport deferred: Permission denied: creating lock file > hitching post /var/spool/mail/admin.lock.alpha.cs.mum.edu.3928a93a.0ac9 > i had a similar problem. is solved it with "chmod 3

Re[2]: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I'm (still) having some exim setup problems.. I have three machines in this test; alpha (Debian host), a local smtp server (cserv), and my PC (windows). Mail from alpha to pc works fine; all gets routed to the smarthost (=cserv). This is "direct" named mail to myself, but an aliased email (to

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 07:31:06PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > At 11:29 PM 05/21/2000 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > >nobody said, it that there must be so many places for > >documentation - it simply has "grown" historically into this situation. > >and even that is not that bad. man, info

Re[2]: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I have a smarthost, but things don't work right. My previous debian build on this machine worked fine, so the network environment seems OK. In /etc/exim.conf: # Send all mail to a smarthost smarthost: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = "* mail.mum.edu bydns_a" But

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 11:29 PM 05/21/2000 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: nobody said, it that there must be so many places for documentation - it simply has "grown" historically into this situation. and even that is not that bad. man, info and /usr/doc are the main sources - it could be *much* worse. possibly the

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> >> Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have > >> as my new mail program. > >> > >RTFM! ;-) > >look at this 800 kb file and search for smarthost. there is a complete > >config example. > > Or run 'eximconfig'. A lot easier ;) > yes - that's the thing, that is r

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Sven Burgener
[snip] >> Sorry, but what on earth is "HFTFMADBUFE"? Couldn't find it in the >> Jargon file. [snip] >well, i have the impression, that it is "decrypted" on the same line. ;-) Yes, sorry, I realised it slightly too late. I guess the length of the acronym completely knocked me out for a sec there. ;

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> >HFTFMADBUFE, the linux motto, is an acronym for 'hunt for the %#@ > [snip] > > Sorry, but what on earth is "HFTFMADBUFE"? Couldn't find it in the > Jargon file. > well, i have the impression, that it is "decrypted" on the same line. ;-) however, this attack against debian (or linux or even *n

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Oswald Buddenhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have >> as my new mail program. >> >RTFM! ;-) >look at this 800 kb file and search for smarthost. there is a complete >config example. Or run 'ex

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Sven Burgener
[snip] >HFTFMADBUFE, the linux motto, is an acronym for 'hunt for the %#@ [snip] Sorry, but what on earth is "HFTFMADBUFE"? Couldn't find it in the Jargon file. TIA Sven

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Riku Saikkonen
Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I used to have sendmail used as my MTA, and had it setup to use an upstream >smartmailer, i.e. all non-local mail went there. > >Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have >as my new mail program. Run "eximconfig" (the n

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > > Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have > > > as my new mail program. > > > > >RTFM! ;-) > >look at this 800 kb file and search for smarthost. there is a complete > >config example. > > -- Ahem, ... > > in the "FM" there is no string "smarthost". :-) > t

Re[2]: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Bob Bernstein
Gregory Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This was an automatic setup option with sendmail! grep smarthost /usr/sbin/eximconfig -- Bob Bernstein http://www.ruptured-duck.com

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
At 06:07 PM 05/21/2000 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have > as my new mail program. > RTFM! ;-) look at this 800 kb file and search for smarthost. there is a complete config example. -- Ahem, ... in the "FM" there is no

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread w trillich
eavesdropping, here... one of the debian gurus wrote: > > > Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have > > as my new mail program. > > > RTFM! ;-) > look at this 800 kb file and search for smarthost. there is a complete > config example. for illustrative purposes,

Re: exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have > as my new mail program. > RTFM! ;-) look at this 800 kb file and search for smarthost. there is a complete config example. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the an

exim mail routing...

2000-05-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I used to have sendmail used as my MTA, and had it setup to use an upstream smartmailer, i.e. all non-local mail went there. Can I get a quick-hint how to do this with exim, which I now seem to have as my new mail program. Thanks, Gregory -