Alex Dean wrote:
> Whew, I just went through something similar. (Getting Exim4 to deliver
> mail to local users.) I did get it running, but I can't honestly
> remember what all the options were that I needed to change. I'll try to
> get back in there and see what I can pull together. I'm trying to get
> Mailman working with exim4 anyway, so I'll probably be cursing it all
> weekend.
My project is to have a script (run via cron) mail it's results to a
local account. From there I want mozilla to automatically check that
account ever so often.
>
> I just kept running 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' and trying different
> values. I think you'll also need a POP server, like courier-pop, to get
> the mail from Mozilla to exim.
>
I only want to receive local mail with mozilla.
> I'm pretty sure the Mozilla 'local folders' mean 'local to Mozilla', not
> 'local on this machine'.
I did a `ln -s /var/spool/mail/bart Local` in
"~/.mozilla/Bart/0bp4zdqv.slt/Mail/Local Folders" and could see the
messages. I could delete them, or have mozilla automatically check for
new messages though.
Bart
> You can set up mail accounts in Mozilla to put
> their mail in these local folders rather than the account's inbox, but I
> think that's about it.
>
> alex
>
> Bart Garst wrote:
>
>> I use mozilla-mail for internet mail. I want to use it for local
>> mail as well.
>>
>> I can send a message to myself with:
>> `mail -s test -t bart@localhost`
>> and it ends up in "/var/spool/mail/bart".
>>
>> When I start up `mutt`, I see the message so I know it's being
>> delivered. Now I just need to know how to get mozilla to see it.
>>
>> I'm trying to get it to check for new messages every few minutes so
>> using the "Local Folders" won't work (as far as I can tell).
>>
>> My MTA is exim4 on debian sarge. I used `dpkg-reconfigure
>> exim4-config` to configure it. During the config I chose local mail
>> only & localhost for the system mail name.
>>
>> I've tried using 'localhost' as the server name and I get a
>> "connection refused" error (iptables is not blocking it).
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions?
>>
>> Setting up a mail server is not my ball of wax, so if I've missed
>> something obvious (or done something stupid), please be gentle ;-)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bart
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