Re: exim

[Helmut Trinkl <helmut@bettyblue.debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 11:05:06AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 02:10:39PM +0200, Timeboy wrote:
> > 
> > On Wednesday Sep 12 01:38 Rino Mardo wrote:
> > 
> > > ** of course there must be mails waiting in the queue list before exim can
> > > ** deliver mails. otherwise what is there to deliver?
> > 
> > Do i become stupid? Or isn't exim an MTA? Sorry that i don't understand
> > this question. But isn't only a mail that thing, that exim can deliver?
> > I only can answere: There is a mail to deliver.
> >  
> > > ** > And to put a mail into exims queue list, you can use an exim option.
> > > ** > An option that deliver this mail to exim. To exims queue list.
> > > ** > 
> > > ** you don't need any option in exim for exim to accept mails from the
> > > ** local system.  just write an email and if exim is your default mta it
> > > ** will accept those mails and put it in its queue list.
> > 
> > But i need. Ok, exim is the dafault MTA. But i like to deliver my mails
> > via konsole kommand (shell script) to exim. So i could ask you: what is an 
> > MUA  like mutt doing to deliver the mails to exim? This will not happens by 
> > a ghost or by another miracle. There must be a kommand that delivers the 
> > mails to the dafault MTA.
> 
> cat mailfile | mail someone@somewhere
>
You merely have to have exim configured correctly ('eximconfig'), then
use a mail client to write and send your mails, such as Mutt, and next
time you go online your mails will be out and off on their way, you
might not even have noticed that it happened.

Helmut