Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-12-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:16:46PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: satan$ dpkg -p exim (snip) Description: Exim Mailer This MTA is rather easier to configure than smail or sendmail. It is a drop-in replacement for sendmail/mailq/rsmtp. Advanced features include the

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-12-01 Thread Cam Ellison
* Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: on Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 09:16:46PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: satan$ dpkg -p exim (snip) Description: Exim Mailer This MTA is rather easier to configure than smail or sendmail. It is a drop-in replacement for

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-30 Thread cmasters
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 07:37:29PM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: On Thursday 29 November 2001 07:05 pm, cmasters wrote: Hope you don't mind the interruption. You may have noticed my slew of postings about difficulties with sorting mail. I read your reponse to mean that I may not even require

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-30 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Thursday 29 November 2001 10:03 pm, cmasters wrote: Well now I'm confused yet again. All the documentation that I've read states that some sort of mail-transport-agent is required in order to send/receive mail. Sendmail was ornery in setup, so I installed exim (which in turn removed

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-30 Thread Glyn Millington
cmasters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fetchmail can use procmail as the MDA -- just put: mda procmail If your mta is exim then I don't think you need t tell fetchmail _anything_ about procmail, exim takes care of that. Try scrubbing the procmail reference in .fetchmailrc Glyn --

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-30 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Friday 30 November 2001 12:24 am, Glyn Millington wrote: Fetchmail can use procmail as the MDA -- just put: mda procmail If your mta is exim then I don't think you need t tell fetchmail _anything_ about procmail, exim takes care of that. Try scrubbing the procmail reference in

exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
satan$ dpkg -p exim (snip) Description: Exim Mailer This MTA is rather easier to configure than smail or sendmail. It is a drop-in replacement for sendmail/mailq/rsmtp. Advanced features include the ability to reject connections from known spam sites, and an extremely efficient queue

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Thursday 29 November 2001 10:41 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: exim doesn't have a spam reject file that i can drop IP addresses into. It doesn't? Then what is host_reject for? Or the ability to use local rbl-type files? what exactly are some of these advanced features then? Did you even

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:25:09AM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: * filtering (it would be cruel to liken it to procmail filtering, but it's in the same general ballpark in that you can reject/drop/delete/forward based on header information) That's something I've wondered about for a while...

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Thursday 29 November 2001 11:22 am, Dave Sherohman wrote: That's something I've wondered about for a while... I've found exim's .forward filtering to be more than adequate for anything I've ever wanted to do (and a lot more human-readable to boot), but you seem to be implying that it's

exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
satan$ dpkg -p exim (snip) Description: Exim Mailer This MTA is rather easier to configure than smail or sendmail. It is a drop-in replacement for sendmail/mailq/rsmtp. Advanced features include the ability to reject connections from known spam sites, and an extremely efficient queue

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread cmasters
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:42:14AM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: On Thursday 29 November 2001 11:22 am, Dave Sherohman wrote: That's something I've wondered about for a while... I've found exim's .forward filtering to be more than adequate for anything I've ever wanted to do (and a lot more

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread Kurt Lieber
On Thursday 29 November 2001 07:05 pm, cmasters wrote: Hope you don't mind the interruption. You may have noticed my slew of postings about difficulties with sorting mail. I read your reponse to mean that I may not even require the services of procmail, as I ~am~ using exim as my MTA. Is this

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread dman
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:05:05PM -0400, cmasters wrote: ... | Hope you don't mind the interruption. You may have noticed my slew of | postings about difficulties with sorting mail. I read your reponse to mean Yes ;-). | that I may not even require the services of procmail, as I ~am~ using exim

exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
satan$ dpkg -p exim (snip) Description: Exim Mailer This MTA is rather easier to configure than smail or sendmail. It is a drop-in replacement for sendmail/mailq/rsmtp. Advanced features include the ability to reject connections from known spam sites, and an extremely efficient queue

Re: exim: misleading package description?

2001-11-29 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake cmasters: On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 11:42:14AM -0800, Kurt Lieber wrote: On Thursday 29 November 2001 11:22 am, Dave Sherohman wrote: That's something I've wondered about for a while... I've found exim's .forward filtering to be more than adequate for anything I've ever