[Exim] Re: How to get local mail from a headless system?

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 16:48:35 -0500, Mike wrote:

Thank you gentlemen. I guess that is obvious. I had to modify it slightly
because I have 3 Linux (and 1 Windows) computer. Each of the Linux
computers are on 1 domain but have their own hostnames. When I aliased
root to mike@??? it didn't work. In fact, I do not even know where
it went. I looked at the exim log and saw an error that says "unrouteable
mail domain kordik.net"

To fix my immediate problem I added the hostname on the domain of my local
mail server and that worked.

Where would I tell exim the name of my host and domain? I don't really
need this but now I am curious.

Thx for your help. This makes it much easier to read mail from my other
servers.

Thx



> I have a Debian headless server running and occasionaly various services
> will send email to root. Root is aliased to a user I had set up to
> receive mail. When I remember, I ssh into the server and use mutt to
> read the mail.
>
> What is the best way to read this mail from another system? I suppose I
> could setup a pop or imap server up as well on this system? Or I could
> configure exim to somehow send the mail to another server instead of
> local?
>
> What is the best/easiest thing to do?
>
> FYI I set up Debian on this server but I do not actively interact with
> it. So I am not well versed with how Debian sets things up. Apparently
> it set up Exim by default. I am not familiar with Exim either.
>
> Thx