I'm familiar with, and comfortable with, Sendmail. So, when Debian
tries to install Exim I just say, No thank you, and install
Sendmail. It was no problem at all.
I think... based on what I've heard here on this topic, that If I Had
It To Do Over Again, that is what I would do also.
But
s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Nah. Debian's real sane that way. If you install exim, it first
uninstalls your other MTA.
You mean, it *tries* to uninstall it... all it takes is one screw-up
to put me in the O-zone with things like that. What if (*just*
for
Carlos Sousa wrote:
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 17:15:23 +0800 John Summerfield wrote:
(replying manually to the list, as I suspect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
won't be a good recipient for my purposes ;)
:-)
See what it resolves to.
Since tbird doesn't have reply to list I reply to all then prune.
Setting
What do you mean, may come back ... again? I believe sendmail is still
the most widely used MTA on the Internet. It's never gone away.
Well, I don't keep track of these things in detail. I started hacking
sendmail in 1984 or something, I forget. It looked like it worked
OK to me. Then
Nah. Debian's real sane that way. If you install exim, it first
uninstalls your other MTA.
You mean, it *tries* to uninstall it... all it takes is one screw-up
to put me in the O-zone with things like that. What if (*just*
for insatance) the other MTA used different versions of some
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
btw, apt-cache search exim mentions exim-doc. Highly recommended.
Okay - now you've touched on something I was curious about in an earlier
thread, and I've dug into it some more:
The man page for exim also mentions exim-doc. I loaded the
exim-doc package. It
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Nah. Debian's real sane that way. If you install exim, it first
uninstalls your other MTA.
You mean, it *tries* to uninstall it... all it takes is one screw-up
to put me in the O-zone with things like that. What if (*just*
for insatance) the other
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:23:57 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is available. Fire up one of the installers, turn off what
you don't want, turn on what you do, then let 'er rip. You may
need to be in something like Custom Install Mode or something
to get this, but that's just to save
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Carlos Sousa wrote:
| The sendmail package asks you a few questions upon installation, so
| as to configure it properly for your machine. Don't you remember
| answering them? You really should take software installation a lot
| less lightly...
I've
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:07:43 +0800 Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
Here is my sendmail.mc
Is there any thing wrong?
...
LOCAL_CONFIG
FEATURE(`nullclient', NONE)dnl
LOCAL_CONFIG
## Custom configurations below (will be preserved)
This appears to be the configuration for local mail only. No wonder
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:07:43 +0800 Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
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I've answered the config questions of course
But I'm not sure if I answered it right...
I think the Debian sendmail package maintainer has already contacted
you about this matter. If
hi ya
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
I've answered the config questions of course
But I'm not sure if I answered it right...
Here is my sendmail.mc
Is there any thing wrong?
you didn't answer the domain questions properly ... and supported
virtual hosts
- it'd be easier to
It is available. Fire up one of the installers, turn off what you
don't want, turn on what you do, then let 'er rip. You may need to be
in something like Custom Install Mode or something to get this, but
that's just to save newbie butts. You can do what you want to.
I thought about that,
hehe... I think I'll step aside and watch this one :)
But, for the record, I'd like to point out that I missed the 1st post
of this - dug around and found it... I replied directly to the
originator and as of yet had heard nothing.
We now return control of your flamefest to you (Outer Limits,
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It is available. Fire up one of the installers, turn off what you
don't want, turn on what you do, then let 'er rip. You may need to be
in something like Custom Install Mode or something to get this, but
I thought about that, but, (1) since exim is
Carlos Sousa wrote:
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:18:54 +0100 Thomas Adam wrote:
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 06:15:35PM +0800, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
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And I don't know how to config Sendmail in Debian, too.
Let's see now you went against the grain as it
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 17:15:23 +0800 John Summerfield wrote:
(replying manually to the list, as I suspect [EMAIL PROTECTED]
won't be a good recipient for my purposes ;)
I did try
sendmail on woody, but discovered it's brken, and having heard good
reports of Postfix, I tried that and that's
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:23:57 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:52:17 -0600 s. keeling wrote:
Very true, but it is your box. I imagine the sendmail package
maintainer needs love just like the others. :-) Then again, maybe
not. He may just be doing it so he doesn't
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I installed a Sendmail to my Debian with apt-get install
After a little bit setup (may be sth. went wrong here), I tried to
send mail with mutt. It failed with a message with Host Unknown (Name
server: none: host not found).
My Debian is connected to
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 06:15:35PM +0800, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
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And I don't know how to config Sendmail in Debian, too.
Let's see now you went against the grain as it were, and
installed Sendmail, which you don't know, raher than using Exim?
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:18:54 +0100 Thomas Adam wrote:
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 06:15:35PM +0800, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
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And I don't know how to config Sendmail in Debian, too.
Let's see now you went against the grain as it were, and
You mean, the OP
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:39:23AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
You mean, the OP decided for himself which MTA to use, instead
of just accepting whatever MTA the current Debian Cabal chooses
to shove down his throat?
Oh, absolutely. Choice is everything, but would you really install
an MTA you
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:15:35 +0800 Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
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Please try and supply the most information possible. After
reading your mail I still haven't a clue where you're coming from.
I installed a Sendmail to my Debian with apt-get install
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:44:04 +0100, Thomas Adam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:39:23AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote:
You mean, the OP decided for himself which MTA to use, instead
of just accepting whatever MTA the current Debian Cabal chooses
to shove down his throat?
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well, I'd already learned to use sendmail, so I was sort of expecting
that the Debian install would make it available, but it installed exim
It is available. Fire up one of the installers, turn off what you
don't want, turn on what you do, then let 'er rip.
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