On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:20, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:09:56PM +0000, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
I can change that file but how do I tell my mail program to retrieve it? In other words for a regular inet account I just need my user name my password, and the mail server settings. How do I set it up to receive this mail?
It depends on your mail client. For many, looking at the local spool will just be the default.
I swap back and forth now between Tbird and Evolution. Right now I'm using Thunderbird. How would I go about it there?
Matthew,
Sendmail running on the FC box is what is handling the mail the root address is root@yourmachinename. If you edit that line to something like:
root yourname@youraddress, sendmail will lookup the mx record and send the mail there. If this is your address at your ISP you should get it there depending on firewalls etc.
Just my thoughts.
Rob
I will add to this. On my ISP's mail server, I cannot send mail out from my box using sendmail. Even at work we have to modify the /etc/mail/sendmail.xx files to get it to work. We had to get sendmail to masquerade the addresses for the mail server to accept our mail.
At home I have resorted to using pine to look at my local mail. I like pine though. Must be my age showing. :) I never could get Mozilla to read my local mail but again, I haven't tried much.
When I move to FC4, I will play with my home system more to see if I can get it to work.
-- Robin Laing
