On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 09:49:53AM +0100, Simon Hepburn wrote:
| dman wrote:
| > On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 02:00:36PM +0100, Simon Hepburn wrote:
| > | John Lord wrote:
| > | > Hi folks,
| > | >
| > | >
| > | > Just a simple question realy, why should I use sendmail in conjunction
| > | > with KMail, rather than let KMail do the job?
| > |
| > | It depends on you situation
| > |
| > | If you are running a standalone box with dialup connection and you get
| > | your mail through your ISP, I would just let KMail handle remote mail for
| > | you. Put simply, it's a lot less hassle. Just configure exim to do local
| > | mail delivery for the benefit of cron and friends. This will save you a
| > | lot of time and confusion.
| >
| > FYI it is almost trivially easy to set exim up with "smarthost"
| > delivery. It becomes trivial when you are given the answers to the
| > questions about relaying. I posted step-by-step instructions on this
| > list a few months ago. If you want I can dig up the URL (I'm in
| > console now and the bookmark is in galeon).
|
| I'm sure that the person who started this thread would be interested in that
| URL.
Here it is :
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user%40lists.debian.org/msg82754.html
| However the fact that you had to post step by step instructions does
| tend to undermine your argument that it is trivially easy. It might
| be to you or me, but this list is littered with queries from new
| users struggling to configure mta's. I can't recall ever having seen
| someone stuck trying to configure kmail.....
The only problem with eximconfig is that it asks a few more questions
than KMail or any other MUA would ask. In particular it asks what
your local hostname is (for the HELO/EHLO line) and if you relay for
any other domains. Those questions can trip up people unfamiliar with
SMTP terminology. Other than that, it is trivial.
-D
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