[Sussex] Exim problems

Steve Dobson SDobson at manh.com
Mon Sep 9 11:21:01 UTC 2002


Geoff

> From: Geoff Teale 
> 
> Steve Wrote:
> ============
> > Welcome to Debian Woody.
> 
> Thanks.. a mail that I failed to send explained why I was doing this :)
The
> Gentoo box is still my day to day surfing and software testing box but I
see
> significant advantages to you and I running a similar base when we're
> working on INSIDE stuff - moreover the Gentoo box tends to get all sorts
of
> interesting stuff installed on it (like the Berlin/Fresco windowing
system).

A good plan, but so is using different distro.  I don't want the system to
only work on Debian (unless I have my debian/rules t-shirt on).

> I did some more work on the parser last night.  Although I'm having
trouble
> finding the parser.h and parserInternals.h on Debian.  I've got libxml's
.so
> file under /usr/lib but /usr/include doesn't seem to have the headers and
I
> can't find a package for libxml development (other than Perl ones).  I'll
> probably just download the files I need and keep them in the project
> directory for the moment.

Have you installed the libxml-dev package.  This should contain the header
files and the static library.

> > When I get home tonight I'll send you my exim config file.  It
> > does some receipt re-writing and handle incoming mail to any of
> > my three e-mail addresses (steve at dobson.org, dobbo at debian.org,
> > <anything>@krasnegar.demon.co.uk).
> > 
> > It also has a dynamic SMARTHOST config that works for my laptop
> > depending how I'm connected.  Should provide a good template for
> > your site.
> > 
> > It works for me if I connect via a third party connection (say at
> > a conference) where I use POP3 to pull my mail, and when I'm dialled
> > in to my ISP (Demon) which SMTP my e-mail straight to my laptop.
> > 
> > All out-going e-mail is sent via a smart host.
> 
> Thanks.  This sounds similar to what I have been trying to achieve.

Glad to help.

Steve




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