dialin, quick question
Hi, I need to set up dialin via modem on a debian box. Never done this, just wonder very quickly if ppp is the easies / best to use or if there is something else? And is there any good docs out there apart from PPP-HOWTO? Dialin will be from Windows boxes. -Geir
Fetchmail / procmail / othermail
Hello, I have a new little problem that might be of interest here; I have a virtual domain mailbox that drops all the mail to a domain into it. Er...it is a pop mailbox that receives all the mail for a whole domain. Something will download this mail and distribute it locally once it is downloaded. Sounds simple enough, apart from the fact that Eric Raymond says that Fetchmail is not really well suited for this, and I am having major problems setting that up, and the procmail faq also says the same thing. But I need to do this, one way or the other, and I would appreciate a little config help with fetchmail if that is the only one. At the moment, fetchmail gets all the mail, but does not distribute it once it comes down locally. I am using the exim mailserver btw. Can somebody help, please? -Geir
Re: Fetchmail / procmail / othermail (solved)
I actually managed to solve this, so if I can help anyone, please ask me. -Geir On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Geir Erik Nielsen wrote: Hello, I have a new little problem that might be of interest here; I have a virtual domain mailbox that drops all the mail to a domain into it. Er...it is a pop mailbox that receives all the mail for a whole domain. Something will download this mail and distribute it locally once it is downloaded. Sounds simple enough, apart from the fact that Eric Raymond says that Fetchmail is not really well suited for this, and I am having major problems setting that up, and the procmail faq also says the same thing. But I need to do this, one way or the other, and I would appreciate a little config help with fetchmail if that is the only one. At the moment, fetchmail gets all the mail, but does not distribute it once it comes down locally. I am using the exim mailserver btw. Can somebody help, please? -Geir -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Very strange error
Hi, I had such luck asking a question earlier, so I am trying again with something else. Thanks to everybody who did answer my previous one. This time what happens is: I have dial on demand with ISDN. One other machine is currently hooked up to the network and that is a Windows 95 machine with Internet Explorer 5 and etc.. If I try and ping from the windows box, dial up works fine, and the replies comes If I try and go on the web, the Linux box freaks and tries to dial up several times..even if there is a connection there, it hangs that up and tries to connect again and again, hanging up immediately. My setup should be standard Debian isdnutils setup. ONly thing I have changed slightly in device.ippp0 is the rule in IPchains (I did try with the standard one as well, but this one I found in Olafs book) # ipchains -P forward DENY # ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -d 0/0 -j MASQ That is it.now why would the Debian box behave in this strange fashion when IE launches against it? Please please can anybody help me with this one. -Geir
Mail configuration and setup
Hi, I was hoping someone would be able to help on this one as I have never done it before. What I am trying to do, is set up a debian box that will serve as a mailserver (both smtp and pop), dial-on-demand internet access, and fax server. The dial on demand is solved, and works beautifully. It routes perfectly (or rather masquerades) inside the network to the outside. But I am puzzled by the mailsystem. Accepting mail is on to a major server that this box will connect to once in a while to download the mail. All the mail to this office is collected in one file named as a user. I will try and explain that better; The company Smallandnice has this box in their office. Every user has an email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] The email gets sent to a server, and all of it gets put into one mailbox called smallandnice. This is also a user on the system. Once every hour the debian box should connect to the other system, log in as smallandnice and get the mail. Once the mail is downloaded, it should distribute the mail in the smallandnice mailfile to the local users mailboxes. I have read Olafs book, but I cannot see an answer to this there. All I need is some documentation, so if somebody could point me in the right direction, I will be able to do the reading myself. Thank you -Geir
