Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-15 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 20:16, Paul E Condon wrote: > I use ppp and diald to connect to my ISP. > What do I need to do to a new installation of Debian stable to get email? > What should I use for reading email? > Do I need something besides exim to get the email? e.g. fetchmail? I would suggest to

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-15 Thread dman
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 11:16:16AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: ... | I use ppp and diald to connect to my ISP. | What do I need to do to a new installation of Debian stable to get email? | What should I use for reading email? I like mutt. It is a curses-based mailer (text only). If you want a g

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-15 Thread Paul E Condon
Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 18:32, Tony Crawford wrote: > > Mario Vukelic wrote (on 13 Dec 2001 at 8:25): > > > > > The ugly thing with the rewriting is that the above rule in the > > > eximconfig-generated conf file rewrites always, regardless of > > > destination, i.e., also for

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-14 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 18:32, Tony Crawford wrote: > Mario Vukelic wrote (on 13 Dec 2001 at 8:25): > > > The ugly thing with the rewriting is that the above rule in the > > eximconfig-generated conf file rewrites always, regardless of > > destination, i.e., also for local mail that stays on your ma

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-14 Thread Tony Crawford
Mario Vukelic wrote (on 13 Dec 2001 at 8:25): > The ugly thing with the rewriting is that the above rule in the > eximconfig-generated conf file rewrites always, regardless of > destination, i.e., also for local mail that stays on your machine or > network (Which means that replys to local mail wa

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-13 Thread ben
On Thursday 13 December 2001 07:03 am, dman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:30:33AM -0800, ben wrote: > | i'm still getting this: > | > | Received: from ben by localhost with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) > > This is normal and expected. The Received: headers are there so that > you can track

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-13 Thread dman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:30:33AM -0800, ben wrote: | i'm still getting this: | | Received: from ben by localhost with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) This is normal and expected. The Received: headers are there so that you can track down problems with mail transfer. Each MTA that sees the mes

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-13 Thread ben
On Thursday 13 December 2001 01:57 am, Mario Vukelic wrote: > Good luck. Essentially, I think you're set when you take eximconfigs > option 2 and accept more or less the defaults plus proper email-aliases. > Then you have to live with rewriting of internal addresses, however. > > OHMYGOD!!! No tha

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-13 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 10:27, ben wrote: > thanks for your help. if i get it sorted, i'll get back to you. Good luck. Essentially, I think you're set when you take eximconfigs option 2 and accept more or less the defaults plus proper email-aliases. Then you have to live with rewriting of internal

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-13 Thread ben
On Thursday 13 December 2001 12:53 am, mario wrote: > On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 09:30, ben wrote: > > i'm still getting this: > > > > Received: from ben by localhost with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) > > Did you restart exim ('/etc/init.d/exim restart' as root)? > > > what's the syntax for /etc/email-

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-13 Thread mario
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 09:30, ben wrote: > i'm still getting this: > > Received: from ben by localhost with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) Did you restart exim ('/etc/init.d/exim restart' as root)? > what's the syntax for /etc/email-addresses? i may have screwed that up. Easy. I'm mario on my ma

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-13 Thread ben
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 11:25 pm, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 08:04, ben wrote: > > i've just managed to get exim set up on a dialup connection. localhost > > gets mentioned in the headers. does that matter a damn? > > I once got angry mail from a guy from this list whose sen

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-13 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 08:55, ben wrote: > thanks for the pointers. i'm assuming that i'll also need to configure > /etc/hosts to read an alias equivalent to yourmachine.yourhomedomain. is that > correct? I don't think it's really related and needed, but it surely makes maintenance easier if you

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-13 Thread ben
On Wednesday 12 December 2001 11:25 pm, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 08:04, ben wrote: > > i've just managed to get exim set up on a dialup connection. localhost > > gets mentioned in the headers. does that matter a damn? > > I once got angry mail from a guy from this list whose sen

Re: exim on a dialup

2001-12-13 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 08:04, ben wrote: > i've just managed to get exim set up on a dialup connection. localhost gets > mentioned in the headers. does that matter a damn? I once got angry mail from a guy from this list whose sendmail rewrote the localhost part in my headers with the machine name

exim on a dialup

2001-12-13 Thread ben
i've just managed to get exim set up on a dialup connection. localhost gets mentioned in the headers. does that matter a damn?

Exim on a dialup

2000-12-17 Thread Gary Jones
I have just installed and configured exim on my box. Both incoming (via fetchmail) and outgoing mail work, but at the moment exim initiates a connection to my ISP as soon as it gets outgoing mail. I know there is a way to stop this but I couldn't see the details in the man page. Could someone p