send mail with exim

send mail with exim

[Fabian Braennstroem]

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

Re: send mail with exim

[Glyn Millington]

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

Re: send mail with exim

[Steven E. Harris]

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

Re: send mail with exim

[Glyn Millington]

"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