On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, John J. Boyer wrote: > hello, hi, > I just installed Debian Sarge. During boot-up it tries to start exim but > finds an error in the exim configuration file. Then it says exit. Does > this mean that exim is not running? The error was about a malformed macro > in line 4, which pointws to the exim configuration file directory in /etc. exim is generally started from within inetd. you may want to use eximconf to reeconfigure exim correctly. > How is procmail used? Is it needed at all, like fetchmail on Redhat? I'll > be using Mutt, since that came with Debian. How do I get it set up to send > and receive mail? It doesn't seem to produce a .Muttrc file in the home > directory. procmail is not comperable with fetchmail it's not needed as well. it's a mailfiter useable from within a .forward file in the users homedir. Mutt needs it's own configuration. > Thanks, > John > > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: andor@xxxxxxxxxxxx student computer science www: http://www.nl.linux.org/~andor UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn,voip: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list