Re: Why can't RPi email?

From	Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject	Re: Why can't RPi email?
Date	2015-08-04 19:22 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 18:45:11 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 04/08/15 17:33, Frank Miles wrote:
[snip]

>> I've finally got mail running - hurrah!  However it isn't using ssmtp.
>> Nothing seemed to help with that.  Instead I installed exim as
>> described very thoroughly in:
>>    http://www.sbprojects.net/projects/raspberrypi/exim4.php
>>
>> Initially restarting exim whined about no IPv6 (modprobe ipv6 fixes that).
>>
>> Mail successfully sent to my intended target machine on the very first try.
>>
>> Thanks to all for your thoughtful replies!
>>
> 
> yeah. I use exim here and its a bitch to set up, but runs flawlessly 
> once you have the right magic spells in place. Postfix is similar.
> 
> If Id known you are doing exim Id have posted my conf files..I use TLS 
> to send

Thanks.  However I hadn't been using exim initially.  Most of the 
recommendations I'd found avoided it for the simpler ssmtp.  But I 
couldn't get ssmtp to work, and exim worked 1st time.

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Re: Why can't RPi email? Toby Newman <google@asktoby.com> - 2015-08-04 11:37 +0100
  Re: Why can't RPi email? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-04 11:58 +0100
  Re: Why can't RPi email? Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu> - 2015-08-04 16:33 +0000
    Re: Why can't RPi email? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-04 18:45 +0100
      Re: Why can't RPi email? Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu> - 2015-08-04 19:22 +0000

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