On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:18:59 -0700 doug piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Although I have been using Linux fo quite some time, I still have no > clue how to get email working. > > I have attempted to set up sendmail, I have attempted to set up > fetchmail and I have tried to use Netscape. Nothing so far gets me my > email so I am forced to reboot into windows, use my Mac, or use another > Windows machine. > > Where do I start. (I have read everything that I can get my hands on but > have had not had a breakthrough.) There is nothing exotic about the > server I get my mail from and I have no problems with either Mac or > Windows. > > I'd appreciate any bits of wisdom anyone can throw at me. > > Thanks, > Doug > > Probably the easiest way to get your mail running overall, and correctly is to go to the URL above, and get the perl script install-sendmail. Follow the simple directions provided; it will a) configure sendmail so that 'doug@homenetwork' goes to the outside world as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or whatever you want, for multiple users, b) setup fetchmail to poll your mailbox at your ISP as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and deliver it to your local mail spool '/var/spool/mail/doug', and several other options that I've never needed to use personally. After this, about the only things left to do is point Netscape at /var/spool/mail/doug for picking up the mail, and to add the fetchmail command to your dialup scripts. My mail provider (yahoo!) requires pop-auth-before-smtp-send, so I just put a post-connect statement in my .fetchmailrc like: POSTCONNECT '/usr/sbin/sendmail -q' This way everytime I run fetchmail, it gets my new mail and sends any outgoing. Just configure Netscape to deliver outgoing mail to the localhost port 25. Works like a champ. Monte http://cork.linux.ie/projects/install-sendmail/ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
