Re: How do I get exim to work?
>> On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Jaakko Niemi wrote:
>>
>> > As root exim -bp shows the queue.
>>
>> I re-installed exim (I think for the last time now). I can see the queue.
>> All the messages are reported to be frozen. Eximon does show some
>> messages.
>>
>> > This is because you are running as user, and you do not have permissions
>> > to /var/log/exim. As the files are owned mail.mail add yourself to
>> > group mail
>> > and you should be able to run eximon right.
>>
>> I did that and at least eximon showed something, but nothing that made me
>> more wise about what is going on.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for all your trouble. Earlier in this list I queried the
>> correctness of somebody's mentioning of an "upgrade" to smail. I had a lot
>> of responses and some of the responses convinced me to try once again.
>>
>> I have now, over the last weeks removed smail, installed exim , removed
>> exim , reinstalled smail about 6 times. I have had no success so far.
>>
>> Maybe I will try once (only once ) again when I have Debian 2.0. I do not
>> have time to waste like this. I want to convince my friends to use Linux.
>> I will keep them away from programs like exim until it can be installed to
>> work the first time.
If you can get smail to work, use it.
I used to use smail, when I had a bo system. When I upgraded to hamm some
seven months ago (last december), I half-accidentally installed exim instead
of smail, and have since used it and installed it several times without
trouble.
I think there has been a lot of changes between bo and hamm versions of exim.
Last night I watched a person (who had never even seen Linux) to install
hamm (and exim) without any troubles. The only information I gave her was
where to find the relevant documentation.
--j
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