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Re: exim help needed (fwd)



On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:21:01PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: 

> > Did you look at /etc/aliases?
> Yeah, what should it say? 

Mine says:

postmaster: root
root: phil
...

> > > - outgoing mail  (e.g. from Mutt) send via  localhost:6025 which is port
> > > forwarded to smtp.cs.ubc.ca:25. 
> > 
> > May I ask why you want outgoing mail to be sent through port 6025?
> 
> Nominally because my school smtp server (the one I want to use) 
> won't accept connections from machines outside the school subnet,
> and my ISP is different from the school's. So I've set up a tcp
> pipe from home to school via one of the school servers. Pine and Gnus
> use it, for example. -chris

Doesn't your ISP offer you a SMTP-Relay-Server? If you are connected
most of the time you don't need one anyway...
Phil



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