Re: cannot send smtp email with exim

"Alexandra Zaharia" <f0rg3r@xxxxxxxxx> writes:


Hi Peter,

I use Postfix to some minimal extent - I only need it to run on my
machine and either deliver mail locally, either I need to be able to
connect to port 25 on my machine from another one in the subnet so for
this limited use it's both suitable and fast for me. Anyway, the good
thing with Postfix is that it's really, really well documented:

http://www.postfix.org/faq.html -- extensive, I'd rather say
http://www.postfix.org/docs.html

So good luck with your setup! :-)

Thanks for the links, reading through them now..

PS - The thing that I don't really understand regarding your setup is
the fact that you say that you need to

- be able to fetch your mail from your account at your ISPs domain (I
suppose something like user@xxxxxxxx)
- be able to send e-mails as user@xxxxxxxx to any destination (such as
user@xxxxxxxxx).

So why then do you need to run your *own* mail server? Isn't it
possible to use an e-mail client such as KMail or Evolution etc. and
just add an account, configuring the following:

- the IMAP/POP3 server (and port) it needs to connect to in order to
fetch your mail from imapserver.isp.mail:port or
pop3server.isp.mail:port
- the SMTP server (and port) it needs to connect to in order to send
e-mail from user@xxxxxxxx to user@xxxxxxxxx (smtpserver.isp.mail:port)

Yes, perhaps this is a case of me posting without thinking things
through. I used to work in town all the time and occasionally on the
road. My desktop at home runs Debian unstable with exim4 as the default
MTA. I would let fetchmail place my mail onto the spool and read it with
Gnus (an emacs client). Sending mail was of course handled by exim.

I don't remember to be honest how I set up exim4 to authenticate but it
works.

Then when I travel all I used to do was ssh into my home desktop and run
my email client inside gnu screen. This i swhat I am currently doing
however now my job takes me away from home much more so I thought why
not just duplicate the setup on my laptop, and when I travel, remove the
fetchmail command from my desktop's crontab and add a fetchmail crontab
to my laptop and then simply rsync the two machines when I get home.

The problem I am facing is that ubuntu is new to me and I am having
difficulty setting up an MTA.

As you suggested, I shall see if Gnus (my MUA) itself can do smtp, it
appears that it can. Because of the ssh I avoided graphical clients like
Evolution, and am quite happy with Gnus now so changing clients inst
really an option.

So if you were to spend 5 weeks working and then 10 days at home, in a
repeating cycle, would you set up your desktop or laptop to be the
primary recipient? I don't like leaving the desktop running for 5 weeks
at a time just to receive emails but I can't think of a better solution.

Thanks for your patience, I hope that clarified somewhat my situation.
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Peter.

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