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so that i can actually mail this report.
this emacs21 is not as good as xemacs, though,
so i hope that be in testing soon.

used dired to find notes i made prior to installation, and pasted them above. cut&pasted template from browser
filled in answers to questions

time is now Thu Aug 19 05:04:14 CEST 2004,
getting some sleep and configure exim tomorrow.

Why doesnt exim4 suggests exim4-doc-html ?

Konqueror::Location::OpenLocation::'click browse button' crashes konqueror,
it becomes completely unresponsive, and i need to use xkill.

need to create /etc/network/interfaces content ; it contained only a comment
next time i reboot it should be allright.
did 'ifconfig lo up ; ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1'
success, can now ping localhost

think i created good exim4.conf ,
but now local testmail was refused because root is on list of never_users,
is exim being run by root, or can root not use mail ?
setting up some usernames/numbers first...

i purged sqlrelay, but this did not remove user sqlrelay

kmail lowercases hostnames specified in it's settings popup,
in woody this caused rewriting in exim to fail,
i already have double rewriting rules in exim4.conf

installed fetchmail and fetchmailconf ;
fetchmailconf fails with a socket error in line 2028 "name or service not known"

reinstalled exim, is invoked as exim4 -bd -q30m by init,
so not run by inetd.
could have made it reread it's configfile by sending it SIGHUP
kmail run as siward can not connect to localhost
kmail run as root (with default identity set to siward) just says
'failed to send some messages' ie all messages.
can grab mail with fetchmail now. (had accidentally uninstalled at)
but cant read them normally yet, as i had not yet set /etc/email-addresses
only via /var/spool/
messages received with fetchmail are not delivered,
because (says /var/spool/exim4/msglog) it is run as root,
while commandline seen in top is clearly invoked by Debian-exim

fetchmail now tries to connect to my popservers without authenticating,
this is always refused,
upon which fetchmail repolls immediately with user/pass
it didnt do this in woody, and i dont like it.

i can send mail with kmail if i set smtp.wanadoo.nl in it's settings,
(ie if i dont use exim)
but i cant retrieve mail from pop.wanadoo.nl due to authorization failure,
despite me providing same password to kmail's popup as
one that is in .fetchmailrc that works
(perhaps it lowercases that too?)

changed /etc/aliases ,
replacing every instance of root by siward, except root:siward
(siward is in group mail)

user Debian-exim is not in group mail, added it to that group.

well, i'll try to send install-report now
no need to cc me on replys, i wont be able to receive your mails
(but i'll use webinterface to read installer list)

one nuisance i encountered also was dselect's
'do you want to erase any downloaded debs'
defaulting to yes,
while being slow and unresponsive
and newlines accumulate in keyboardbuffer
'yes' can not be corrected, undoing 'no' would be easy.

Well, i hope this helps any,
installer worked well overall, just a few bugs,
debian installation did not work so well,
a system without mail means continuous rebooting.
but now i have some nice new packages to use,

thanks for your good work.

Siward




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