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From: Glyn Millington <wistanswick@linuxmail.org>
Subject: Re: send mail with exim
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 19:00:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87llmd4x8d.fsf@nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k71xj2hg.fsf@rechner1.ddorf.de>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-06 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-06 17:43 Fabian Braennstroem
2004-03-06 19:00 ` Glyn Millington [this message]
2004-03-08 16:28   ` Steven E. Harris
2004-03-08 18:05     ` Glyn Millington

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