Now I face another problem.
I updated to exim4 and now I got another problem: At the moment it is not
possible to use fetchmail to get my mails from the server. Can anybody
explain this? At the moment I don't remember the error-message, but later
that day, maybe in the evening I can post this.
German
> David Cantrell wrote:
>> It took me forever to upgrade to exim 4. For someone who doesn't spend
>> a
>> lot of time looking after mail servers, upgrading your own one is quite
>> daunting. Mail is the one service that you really don't want to break.
>
> True, but if you follow for example debian's migration docs it is rather
> painless. Unless you have a lot of tricky custom configuration. I first
> created an exim4 configuration file with all the custom things from
> exim3 applied and did test it to see if it was syntactically correct, I
> also had a safe fallback exim4 setup (a vanilla debian config with the
> usual exim4-config additions). All went well and downtime was the
> duration of stopping exim3 and starting exim4. If things would have gone
> wrong I could have easily kept email working by using the fallback
> configuration, which would at least guarantee email throughput, but
> would momentarily break customs stuff like mailinglists (not such a big
> deal).
>
> I'd think migrating from, say, sendmail can be rather painless too. It's
> a matter of carefully checking the customisations you have and
> implementing them in your new exim4 config. Do a few test runs on a
> cloned server.
>
> I am personally not such a fan of doing a lot of customisation in the
> MTA, but rather use a spamfilter to do such things. Since most of it is
> related to some form of filtering. The few things I have are
> mailinglists (mailman), smtp authentication, encryption and a few debian
> related tweaks (using macros).
>
> Best regards,
> Jeroen
>
>
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