Re: configuring debian for network mail clients

[Dwight Johnson <dwj@aaronsrod.com>]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 cfelling@iae.nl wrote:

Thanks for your reply.
 
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:33:58PM -0500, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> ...
> > When she tries to read her mail using Eudora, she gets a message that
> > her connection has been refused. When she tries to send mail, she gets
> > a message that she must change the address to one local to the debian
> > system (@runner) before delivery can take place.
> 
> to read mail via tcp from your debian box you need a pop or a imap deamon
> running on your debian box. Normally they are triggered from inetd.
 
What is the name of the debian pop package? I do not see one in the list
of packages. I do not want imap.

> to send mail via your debian box you need to tell exim it's okee to relay
> mail for your local domain (in particular for your wife's machine).
 
What precise setting is that? I tried setting:

relay_domains = verdi

(my wife's box is named 'verdi') and that had no effect -- exim on debian
still refuses to deliver mail that is not local.

Thanks in advance,
Dwight
> > (I think I remember setting this up in /etc/sendmail.cw on my Red Hat/sendmail
> > box.)
> 
> now you need to tinker with /etc/exim.conf, you could consider running
> eximconfig (again) and fill in the domain for which you are prepared to
> relay mail, or read in the excellent exim info pages to look for the
> settings for relayhost.
> 
> -- 
> groetjes, carel
> 
> 
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