Hi everyone,
I finally bit the bullet and set up exim (sendmail) on my linux
server. Now I have mail forwarding directly to my computer, which is
very nice. I am using mutt now to check my mail; before I was using
pine.
Easy questions about mutt:
1. Can mutt filter my uug mail into a seperate mailbox, or do I
need
to just use procmail. If I use procmail, does it go to
/var/spool/mail/myname.uug or something, or can/should it go directly to
~/Mail/uug. Speaking of which, right now mutt copies my mail to ~/mbox,
but it would be nice to put it in ~/Mail/mbox, with the other mailboxes.
2. mutt uses vim to create message body, and I assume it is using
my
~/.vimrc for default settings. Can I have a seperate .vimrc for use
with mutt? I ask because the indenting, which is good for programming,
gets bothersome, so I am having to type ":set noai" for every e-mail
message I write.
Question about exim:
1. This is a hard question, maybe. I installed qpopper and I
also set up exim with AUTH LOGIN, so I can now receive and send e-mail
from remote computers. I can send just fine from one computer, but
another computer takes 15 seconds before it will even try to send.
Well, I did "telnet myserver 25" and noticed that it takes 15 seconds
before it will respond with "... ESMTP Exim 3.35 ..." message. From the
first computer it responds right away. So what, is it doing a reverse
DNS lookup or what? But I took out host_lookup = * from exim.conf and
it still is going slow. Any ideas?
Thanks everyone,
Phil Hellewell
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