Re: Do I have to use exim?
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 05:19:59AM -0400, Scott Fitzgerald wrote:
> Hrmm, looks like the best thing to do is explain what I am trying to
> do, and see if I get an opinion on how to do it best. Let's try this
> again.
>
> Exim looks like it can do anything, but also looks incredibly complex,
> like learning a computer language on it's own. I am looking to avoid
> spending the time to learn all those options.
Not so in Debian. dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config is what I use to solve
my problem, which is similar to yours. What you need is a smarthost
setting.
If you still `fear' or don't have the patience to confgure exim4, you
can as well use fetchmail or getmail to directly spawn procmail to
deliver the message to /var/mail/<username>
> I am currently a Kmail user, and am using my ISP's smtp server as well
> as their pop server just fine.
Then .fetchmailrc can look like this
poll <popserver> with proto POP3 and options
no dns user 'username' with pass 'password'
is 'localuser' here mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
(Add keep to prevent deletion of messages onthe server)
Done. For SMTP, use KMail or use a simple tool like msmtp.
> I also noticed that in my last installation woody, I got several emails
> from things like anacron and installing mozilla that were sent to my
> /usr/var/username account which under this new default sarge installation
> are conspicuously missing. This leads me to believe that somehow exim is
> not yet set up on my system correctly, what could cause this? I see
> nothing in my /var/mail/username account.
Check whether root is aliased to your ordinary username in
/etc/aliases. Also, I don't think you'll get any of these messages if
exim isn't running.
> I would like to keep my options open to learn mutt down the road, as well
> as standard command line stuff, like using the command "mail."
Great!
> Thanks for any advice you can give me,
Advice:
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config -> choose Yes/No -> Mail sent by
smarthost... -> Ok -> Ok -> Ok -> Ok -> mysmtpserver.myisp.com -> Yes
-> Yes -> Yes or No.
Then, edit /etc/email-addresses and add an entry like
localusername: actual@email.address
Finally, edit /etc/exim4/passwd.client and add an entry:
mysmtpserver.myisp.com:server_username:password
Restart exim4.
Done. Didn't take me more than 5 minutes. I'd advice you to try it out.
Kumar
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Kumar Appaiah,
462, Jamuna Hostel,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Chennai - 600 036
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