Mail

[Darin Perusich]

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