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sent on Monday March 24 2003 at 16:50 (GMT-0500):
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Kurt Sys wrote:
>
> [...]
> >
> > I guess another config-file, somewhere is /etc is wrong and
> > fetchmail reads that file if it doesn't find the
> > 'smtphost'-option. Could this be right?
> >
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Kurt Sys wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I don't know if there were (a lot) of responses to my last mail(s),
> since I again did some 'uncareful' things and I lost now and then some
> mail. Anyway, for the people who want to know, the problem is solved
> now completely. It was somethi
Hello all,
I don't know if there were (a lot) of responses to my last mail(s),
since I again did some 'uncareful' things and I lost now and then some
mail. Anyway, for the people who want to know, the problem is solved
now completely. It was something with my fetchmail configuration. I
don't fully
Sheer horror:
> OK, I tried to make my 'receiving mail from outside' to work, and I
> lost all my mail that was still on 'the mailserver', due to bad
> fetchmail configuration file.
If it's that easy to destroy one's mail with some unperceived error I'm
only confirmed in not migrating my mailing f
Kurt -- Not to sound like a dullard here, but ... what is your question? I
only have an imprecise memory of your earlier messages, not actual copies,
but you were having some sort of problems with your MTA. From this message,
we know that
A. Your MTA itself is running in daemon mode (since you
Hello...
I'm really sorry to bother you again. I'm still trying to make my mail
working... and I found something else working:
I can send emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using webmail (on my
computer, but I consider this as 'outside'). So, the only thing that
doesn't work right now is getting my mail
Hello again,
OK, I tried to make my 'receiving mail from outside' to work, and I
lost all my mail that was still on 'the mailserver', due to bad
fetchmail configuration file. That's way the previous message(s)
is/are not included in this one. But it's important to mention: telnet
does work! There
OK, Kurt. To get help with these problems, you're going to need to describe
them in a bit more detail.
First, *where* is "outside"? Is this system connected to the Internet, and
you are trying to send mail to it from a place that is truly off-site? Or
is "outside" another machine on the same LA
Eello again,
I tried to make my homework as good as possible. I reinstalled 'everything', so
all permissions are now default values, except the ones in my homedir. I was
able to solve some (other) problems with qmail. Now, I can send mail using
qmail. I can receive mail whenever I send a message f
Responses to an edited version of your message appear below. And you
mistakenly (I assume) replied to me personally; I've added the linux-newbie
list back in through a Cc: entry.
At 10:10 AM 3/18/2003 +0100, Kurt Sys wrote:
[...]
Or are there any 'tests' I can run to see were the problem would b
Kurt -- Your problem is fundamental and based on bad advice (or a bad
interpretation of good advice) about how to secure your system.
You write "it is recommended here and there to make nothing world-wide
readable, and also writable and/or executable". This is simply nonsense.
Every standard pr
Hello all,
I have a quite serious problem (I guess) and I know, I can only blame myself.
Anyway, I want to solve it in a 'nice', non-drastic way.
I wanted to make my system somewhat safer, so I started, as it is recommended,
changing the permissions and groups. This seemed to work and I thought m
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