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

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Szerző: Derrick
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Címzett: Mike
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Tárgy: Re: [Exim] Re: How to get local mail from a headless system?
this is probably because your servers hostnames are unrouteable, and your
system does not allow mail from a hostname that it can't resolve.

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Mike wrote:

> 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
>
>
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Derrick MacPherson
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