newby mail problems

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:56:24AM +0100, lists at barrettpianos.co.uk wrote:
> I have downloaded and installed the iso from Shane.  This
> is the speakup enabled version so not sure how up to date I am?
> 

Most likely, very much out of date when it comes to the latest and
greatest, but if you don't care about that, you should still be fine
if you periodically check for security updates.

> Just wondering which file I should be putting the default editor in as I have 
> found both .bashrc and .bash_profile mentioned.
> 

You probably want to put it into $HOME/.bash_profile, since that's
used for login shells, like the comments in that file say. If you want
to have nano be the default for all users on your system, (not
recommended), then you can put it into /etc/profile instead.

> Also, should there be a colon at the beginning of the lines?
> 

No.

> Also, I am trying to use exim4 to send mail.  The messages appear to be 
> sent but are not delivered.
> 

Without seeing the tale end of your /var/log/mail.log, I'm not sure
anybody can be of much help here.

> Perhaps someone could point me to a debian for dummies or something 
> similar?
> 
> Many thanks

I would suggest installing the debian-reference-en package, assuming
you haven't done so already, and that English is your preferred
language:

apt-get install debian-reference-en

and then typing

debian-reference

at the prompt will open the main page in your default web browser.

Greg




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