Re: kissing exim
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:42:20AM -0800, Martin Quinson wrote:
> The problem is that it's not possible inside Debian, for the reason
> explained in the mail you're responding to, and in the part you've cut ;)
:) ah well. sorry about that.
> What are the three simple questions asked by sSMTP ?
There are 6 questions asked by debconf. These are more descriptive
questions than the ones put by eximconfig and most important of all,
they generate a working configuration for the mta for this purpose. The
questions are:
Mail sent to a local user whose UID is less than 1000 will instead be
sent here. This is useful for daemons which mail reports to root and
other system UIDs.
Who gets mail for userids < 1000?
postmaster_____________________________________________________________
<Ok>
This sets the host to which mail is delivered. The actual machine
name is required; no MX records are consulted. Commonly, mailhosts
are named "mail.domain.com".
Name of your mailhub?
mail._______________________________________________________
<Ok>
If your remote SMTP server listens on a port other than 25
(Standard/RFC)
then set it here.
Remote SMTP port number
25__________________________________________________________
<Ok>
ssmtp will use "username@REWRITEDOMAIN" as the default From: address
for outgoing mail which contains only a local username.
What domain to masquerade as?
ay986@chebucto.ns.ca__________________________________________________
<Ok>
This should specify the real hostname of this machine, and will be
sent to the mailhub when delivering mail.
Fully qualified hostname?
charon______________________________________________________________
<Ok>
A "positive" response will permit local users to enter any From: line
in their messages without it being mangled, and cause ssmtp to rewrite
the envelope header with that address. A "negative" response will
disallow this, and use only the default address or addresses set in
/etc/ssmtp/revaliases.
Allow override of From: line in email header?
<Yes> <No>
> We could add a new entry to the main eximconfig menu "Simple configuration of
> a dialup machine", and ask them. Using these answers to generate a valid
> exim.conf should be easy for the exim gurus around there.
In view of what you and others have said, that would be great.
Thanks,
Anthony Rowe
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