Re: MTA help

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:07:58 -0800, 
Eric Walstad <debian@ericwalstad.com> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 200311101507.59890.debian@ericwalstad.com>:

> Greetings kind debianites,
> 
> I'm in the process of learning MTA admin.  My head is about to
> explode.
> 
> I'm wanting to setup a Debian box that'll suck down pop email from an 
> ISP for a few local users and then serve those email up via pop3 or 
> imap on the LAN.  Following some advice I received on this list, I 
> installed fetchmail, courier-imap, courier-pop and exim4.  I then

..I dont see procmail here?

> found that exim4 and courier like different mailbox formats.  

..see the docs on the above. ;-)

> I couldn't find a way to make exim4 work with courier's maildir
> format, so I figured I'd replace exim4 with courier-mta.  Now
> fetchmail and courier-mta are fighting (courieresmtp throws an ERROR
> 513, syntax error, when fetchmail tries to forward an email) over
> addresses like "ewalstad@localhost".
> 
> So, I'm stuck.  I haven't had any luck in figuring out how to fix 
> courier and I don't know how to fix exim4.
> 
> Any sage bits of advice are appreciated.
> 
> Eric.
> 
> PS, I hope you mail admins get paid a LOT of money for what you do. 
> I'm finding email setup and admin is very complex.
> 
> 


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