Mail

[JJ Neff]

I installed exim and tkmail and mailx (actually when I installed mailx it
installed exim, during the exim install it prompted me for how I wanted mail
handled ,I sisnt need sendmail- I only wanted to get mail as a local user from
the system (ie cron adn other alerts).  I answered a few questions about who to
send root mail to and now I have a var/spools/mail/USER folder and am getting
mail I can read with tkamil.

I figured out how to get it to work but still am not sure I truly Understand
what I did and how I can tweak or enhance mail (ie - use local mail agents and
sendmail to interfcae to my pop3 or other mail external)
JJN
--- Darin Perusich <darinper at cognigencorp.com> wrote:
> writing a system independent email tutorial is simple enough, but 
> writing one that is MTA independent is a different story. i can put 
> something together about sendmail, i probably have something like this 
> from presentations i've done.
> 
> a users local email file, it's not a folder, is located in 
> /var/spool/mail/$USER or /var/mail/$USER and is stored in mbox format.
> 
> JJ Neff wrote:
> > Anyone want to post a very simple Distro independent tutorial on how to set
> up
> > Linux mailing, I installed mailx and exim and tkamil and exim ran me
> through
> > setup, I chose local mail only and had all the root mail forwardrd to me,
> when
> > I run tkamil Im not sure what the mail folder is?  Basically I dont even
> know
> > what I don't know.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any help.  
> > 
> > PS if anyone has a tutorial that expands on the above... ie I have a home
> > server and two workstations, I want both my wife and my mail to get
> retrieved
> > from a pop3 server (fethcmail?) and delivered to our mailboxes and I want
> us to
> > be able to send messages to each other locally ... what are tools I should
> be
> > reading about, learning...?
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> > JJN
> > 
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> -- 
> Darin Perusich
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Cognigen Corp.
> darinper at cognigencorp.com
> 
> 


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