well i did see that exim was installed with debian but since that did not work out of thebox either and since i had heard a lot about sendmail..i thought that would be the way to go...however i am open to try any SMTP server as long as it sends my mail..:) so if you dont mind could you please tell me how to configure qmail/exim/any other MTA. thanks Rishabh
-- Rishabh Manocha http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/rmanocha **********Your Quote for the day********** Gluttony is the sin of England. English saying ****************************************** On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > Rishabh Manocha wrote: > > > reply to mails through this account(i use pine)...i dont use the > > universities SMTP server since it has some rcpthosts(i am really very new > > to sendmail and how it works) error thingi. > > Maybe if you explain this error, we can help here too. You would > probably still need to install a local MTA instead. I would recommend > nullmailer(http://untroubled.org/nullmailer/) if you only plan to relay > your outgoing mails to an university mail host. > > I have very little experience with sendmail, which personally, I wouldnt > touch even with a long pole because there are so many *much* more sane > replacements available. But again, that is a different topic altogether. > > I have no clue why you decide to replace exim - the standard email > server on debian. > > > anyways i have installed and configured sendmail on my machine and then > > tried to sendmail.pine shows that it is sending the mail..even though it > > takes it a while and it actually says it has sent the message > > out...however i recieve no message(i am mailing back to myself).i do not > > Ok. for one, do you have your hostname correctly put in the /etc/hosts > file? Also, are the DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf ok? The reason > behind this is that in most cases, sendmail tries to resolve the host of > the sender. > > Also what does a check in /var/log/maillog say? Any change in this file > after pine sends its mail? > > > > > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/rmanocha/sendmail.cf > > > > I am also running a firewall which i created using firestarter and i only > > opened up ports 22(ssh),80(http) and ftp(i dont know exactly what port > > that is..22/23?). > > 21 for control and 20 for ftp-data i think. > > Outgoing mails should not have a problem with the firewall. > > - Sandip > > > -- > Sandip Bhattacharya http://www.sandipb.net > sandip at puroga.com > Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. > http://www.puroga.com > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
