Re: Pine and smail not cooperating
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
> Since I upgraded to Debian 2.0, I cannot use pine to send messages
> other than local messages. As soon as I try to do it, I get an error
> message about pine deferring the message.
>
> I have tried exim. Pine does not have problems to deliver the
> outbound messages to exim. My problem there is that I cannot get exim
> to deliver any mail whether outbound or local mail. I do not
> understand the configuration of exim.
>
> I have a dialup ppp connection with my ISP. In the past I have used
> smail and pine with Debian 1.3.1 because smail was the only mail-agent
> I could get configured. With Debian 2.0 however, it took me a long
> time to get smail to work in a way. Now pine would not cooperate...
>
> Some information from my .pinerc:
>
> personal-name=Johann Spies
> user-domain=
> smtp-server=localhost
> nntp-server=Johann
> feature-list= compose-rejects-unqualified-addrs,
> enable-bounce-cmd,
> enable-unix-pipe-cmd,
> enable-verbose-smtp-posting,
> enable-background-sending
> sendmail-path=/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -t -oi -odb
>
> Can somebody help me please
>
> Johann
>
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Johann,
I think your smtp-server & news-server need to be something like;
smtp-server=smpt.best.com
news-server=news.best.com
substitude your isp's requirements here.
Using localhost would be a problem for an outgoing ppp conection.
(of course this is fine for your local mail!)
-mike
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