Re: [users] Mail from OE to linux and more
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:50:51PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> On 07/09/01 02:31:03 -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> > I'm yet another person who'd love to completely transition from Windows
> > to Linux. And yes, I use Outlook and yes, getting mail really working on
> > Linux is the biggest obstacle to my completing the transition.
>
> Yeah, mail is pretty important. I'm in the process of documenting my
> mail setup experience to share with others.
ding! did someone mention my name? oh, that's right, yuo're
DOCUMENTING something. excellent!
http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/
needs more folks like you.
and now we return you to your regularly scheduled email...
:)
> The first thing I did was get exim configured. You need to run
> eximconfig. I selected option 2 and then proceeded through all the
> questions. I accepted the defaults with the exception of the smtp host
> which I set to mail.xxx.yyy.home.com and sending the postmaster and
> root mail to my user account.
>
> You then might want to take a look at the exim.conf file and make sure
> the your local_domains has localhost and your hostname listed. Also,
> look for trusted_users and add your local account name there. Mine
> looks like this:
>
> trusted_users = mail:mwagnon
>
> This apparently will make it easier on your Outlook using friends when
> replying to you ;-)
>
> After that, you're going to need to get the rewriting stuff taken care
> of. Look at the REWRITE CONFIGURATION at the end of the exim.conf
> file. You set up those aliases in /etc/email-addresses.
>
> Assuming you're able to get mail without any problems with fetchmail,
> you're almost set. For me, procmail is a pain. I use a .forward file
> in my home directory to filter mail. Here's a snippet of mine:
dittos there. my procmail recipes mostly worked, but if i left
them alone for a week i had a helluva time trying to figure out
what was happening in there. very obtuse syntax.
exim filter == much better sane-ness.
> # Exim filter <<== do not edit or remove this line!
> if error_message then finish endif
>
> elif $h_Resent-From: contains "debian-user"
> then save $home/Mail/IN.Debian-User
>
> else save $home/Mail/Inbox
>
> endif
>
> You might want to check the filter.txt.gz file in /usr/share/doc/exim
> for more info on this.
> Mark Wagnon <mwagnon1@home.com>
looking forward to your intro/howto!
--
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #60 from Vineet Kumar <debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net>
:
Been hoping to find A FEATURE-PACKED MUTT CONFIG FILE? Check
out the ones at Sven Guckes' site:
http://www.fefe.de/muttfaq/muttrc
There's also some great vimrc ideas there, too.
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
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