[svlug] Adding users to exim

[Jeff Frost]

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Skip Evans wrote:

> And got this:
> badler at pixoasis.com is undeliverable:
>
> badler is a valid user I just added to the system.
>

Might be a pam problem.  What does /etc/pam.d/exim look like?  On my fedora 
core 4 system running exim it looks like this:

auth            required        pam_stack.so service=system-auth
account         required        pam_stack.so service=system-auth



>
> Jeff Frost wrote:
>> Skip,
>> 
>> Do you mean other than just making a normal linux user?  That's how my exim 
>> delivers mail (just like sendmail).  Or do you mean something else by 
>> adding users?  Or do you mean so users can download?  Neither exim nor 
>> sendmail is a POP3 or IMAP server, so if you need POP or IMAP support, you 
>> must install an imap or pop server like courier-imap, qpopper or something 
>> similar.
>> 
>> On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Skip Evans wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey all,
>>> 
>>> I am developing a site for a new client that is
>>> hosted on a FC4 server running exim. ('which exim'
>>> shows /usr/sbin/exim, not exim4 or something like
>>> that.)
>>> 
>>> I have been googling and reading all day and for
>>> the life of me I can't find out how to simply add
>>> users to exim so that they can receive email and
>>> log in with their mail clients to get email!!!
>>> 
>>> At this moment I am feeling like a complete dolt.
>>> I have read through more exim documentation than I
>>> thought I ever would, but can find no docs about
>>> adding users.
>>> 
>>> I've done this with sendmail gallons of times, but
>>> exim has me baffled.
>>> 
>>> If anyone can point me in a more production
>>> direction than the circles I've been running in it
>>> will be most, most appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>> 
>
>

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