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[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:

> Mike McGinn wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 June 2008 21:12:08 Derek Broughton
> wrote:
> >   
> >> Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 15:47 -0600, Karl Larsen
> wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> To get mail just use sudo apt-get install mailx
> and mailutil
> >>>>         
> >>> mailx is pretty ancient software, but is still
> usable.  I would not at
> >>> this time recommend it for the casual mail user.
> >>>       
> >> Well, it's a pain for actually _reading_ mail,
> but it's pretty much
> >> necessary if you want things like cron to deliver
> mail for you
> >> --
> >> derek
> >>     
> >
> > I am running gutsy, so your mileage may vary.
> Searching the Ubuntu forums I 
> > found this
>
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/networking/exim.html
> -- I took 
> > the plunge apt-get install mailx and got exim an
> some other stuff. As root I 
> > sent an email message to myself on my laptop. No
> configuration of exim was 
> > needed. I set up kmail for a local acount, took
> the defaults except I 
> > determined that FCNTL locking is what is needed. I
> then retrieved the email I 
> > sent myself as root. Best of all, I did nothing to
> exim for local delivery - 
> > it worked out of the box.
> >
> > Next step will be to send mail off the computer
> using one of my gmail 
> > accounts.
> >
> >   
>     On my computer I have exim on Hardy but the
> important eximconf does 
> not work. I can look around and see if the config
> exists but $locate 
> eximconf finds nothing. So versions change. As for
> sending and receiving 
> email my stuff works fine between user and root. On
> my new Hardy there 
> was no /var/spool/karl but it made one when there
> was mail.
> 
> Karl
> 
Karl, are you sure it's not exim4 and exim4-conf on
hardy that you have and not exim and eximconf on
hardy. I was exim4 for me on gutsy. Computers and OS
are exact creatures. :) Even so, I installed
exim4-conf and apt show says it's installed but locate
didn't find it.  Me thinks you have to call it with
another program.  I have the related man called up but
haven't got around to reading them yet(it's not my
favorite pastime). Think we should RTFMs and the uri
listed above before we do anything else. Someone who
knows the desired procedure for exim4 setup feel free
to jump in and point us in the right direction. 
Thanks list.



Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net