4.36 EMail: Setup Exim

Out Of Date

The default email server for Debian is exim. This can be set up in one of several ways, depending on how you will access your email. The exim configurator will list the options.

Generally, for a networked machine (e.g., Athene) that is not acting as a mail server, but using a remote smarthost (SMTP server) to send email, yet still delivering email locally (which is obtained using fetchmail, fetchmail, fetchmail, fetchmail, fetchmail, for example, from an IMAP server) you will choose option 2.

The information you then supply is:

visible name:       athens.togaware.com 
other names:        none 
domain rely:        none 
network relay:      none 
smarthost:          mailhost.togaware.com 
root email sent to: kayon 

This means that mailhost.togaware.com is used for sending email. Any email sent from Athene to an unqualified address (i.e., no @) will have athens.togaware.com appended to it and delivered locally.

---

Your donation will support ongoing availability and give you access to the PDF version of this book. Desktop Survival Guides include Data Science, GNU/Linux, and MLHub. Books available on Amazon include Data Mining with Rattle and Essentials of Data Science. Popular open source software includes rattle, wajig, and mlhub. Hosted by Togaware, a pioneer of free and open source software since 1984. Copyright © 1995-2022 Graham.Williams@togaware.com Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0