* send mail with exim
@ 2004-03-06 17:43 Fabian Braennstroem
2004-03-06 19:00 ` Glyn Millington
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From: Fabian Braennstroem @ 2004-03-06 17:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hello,
somehow I can't find anything about sending mail with Gnus using exim or
sendmail. Does anybody know what I have to write to my Gnus-config?
Greetings!
--
Fabian Braennstroem
Berlin / Duesseldorf
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* Re: send mail with exim
2004-03-06 17:43 send mail with exim Fabian Braennstroem
@ 2004-03-06 19:00 ` Glyn Millington
2004-03-08 16:28 ` Steven E. Harris
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From: Glyn Millington @ 2004-03-06 19:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> writes:
> Hello,
>
> somehow I can't find anything about sending mail with Gnus using exim or
> sendmail. Does anybody know what I have to write to my Gnus-config?
Fabian - this is a very simple-minded answer, I'm afraid, but have you
tried sending mail? In the last year I have set up Gnus with sendmail,
exim and postfix. In each case Gnus has just worked once I had the MTA
set up properly - no need for anything in .gnus.
I _think_ the reason is that Gnus, unless you tell it otherwise, sends
mail out with the "sendmail-send-it" function using then program named by
"sendmail-program" which in my case is /usr/sbin/sendmail ! If the MTa
is sendmail, that's fine. If it is Postfix, then postfix uses a binary
named sendmail for this purpose. If using Exim then /usr/sbin/sendmail
is a link pointing to the relevant exim command (sorry, can't remember
name, probably exim!).
Of course I may be wrong .... but send me an e-mail and I'll tell you
if it arrives!
hth
Glyn
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* Re: send mail with exim
2004-03-06 19:00 ` Glyn Millington
@ 2004-03-08 16:28 ` Steven E. Harris
2004-03-08 18:05 ` Glyn Millington
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From: Steven E. Harris @ 2004-03-08 16:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
Glyn Millington <wistanswick@linuxmail.org> writes:
> If using Exim then /usr/sbin/sendmail is a link pointing to the
> relevant exim command (sorry, can't remember name, probably exim!).
One can also set
(setq sendmail-program "exim")
instead of creating the otherwise spurious sendmail symlink.
--
Steven E. Harris :: seharris@raytheon.com
Raytheon :: http://www.raytheon.com
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* Re: send mail with exim
2004-03-08 16:28 ` Steven E. Harris
@ 2004-03-08 18:05 ` Glyn Millington
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From: Glyn Millington @ 2004-03-08 18:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
"Steven E. Harris" <seharris@raytheon.com> writes:
> Glyn Millington <wistanswick@linuxmail.org> writes:
>
>> If using Exim then /usr/sbin/sendmail is a link pointing to the
>> relevant exim command (sorry, can't remember name, probably exim!).
>
> One can also set
>
> (setq sendmail-program "exim")
>
> instead of creating the otherwise spurious sendmail symlink.
True - but then maybe other programs are looking for sendmail too ;-)
Glyn
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