On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:50:51PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > On 07/09/01 02:31:03 -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > I'm yet another person who'd love to completely transition from Windows > > to Linux. And yes, I use Outlook and yes, getting mail really working on > > Linux is the biggest obstacle to my completing the transition. > > Yeah, mail is pretty important. I'm in the process of documenting my > mail setup experience to share with others.
ding! did someone mention my name? oh, that's right, yuo're DOCUMENTING something. excellent! http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ needs more folks like you. and now we return you to your regularly scheduled email... :) > The first thing I did was get exim configured. You need to run > eximconfig. I selected option 2 and then proceeded through all the > questions. I accepted the defaults with the exception of the smtp host > which I set to mail.xxx.yyy.home.com and sending the postmaster and > root mail to my user account. > > You then might want to take a look at the exim.conf file and make sure > the your local_domains has localhost and your hostname listed. Also, > look for trusted_users and add your local account name there. Mine > looks like this: > > trusted_users = mail:mwagnon > > This apparently will make it easier on your Outlook using friends when > replying to you ;-) > > After that, you're going to need to get the rewriting stuff taken care > of. Look at the REWRITE CONFIGURATION at the end of the exim.conf > file. You set up those aliases in /etc/email-addresses. > > Assuming you're able to get mail without any problems with fetchmail, > you're almost set. For me, procmail is a pain. I use a .forward file > in my home directory to filter mail. Here's a snippet of mine: dittos there. my procmail recipes mostly worked, but if i left them alone for a week i had a helluva time trying to figure out what was happening in there. very obtuse syntax. exim filter == much better sane-ness. > # Exim filter <<== do not edit or remove this line! > if error_message then finish endif > > elif $h_Resent-From: contains "debian-user" > then save $home/Mail/IN.Debian-User > > else save $home/Mail/Inbox > > endif > > You might want to check the filter.txt.gz file in /usr/share/doc/exim > for more info on this. > Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> looking forward to your intro/howto! -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #60 from Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Been hoping to find A FEATURE-PACKED MUTT CONFIG FILE? Check out the ones at Sven Guckes' site: http://www.fefe.de/muttfaq/muttrc There's also some great vimrc ideas there, too. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...