Re: fetchmail, mutt, mail

[Jeff Coppock <jcoppock1@home.com>]

Thusly Thwacked By Schoppitsch Dieter:
> Hi,
> what is going wrong?
> 
> Dialing in to my ISP (with pppd) and fetching mails (with fetchmail) works well.
> But then I get the message "SMPT connect to localhost failed" respectively (using fetchmail -S hostname)
> "This message is MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand".
> 
> * Where can I see/set my local smtphostname (or should I set my domainname)?
> * Sending myself a mail (with mutt) doesn't work - which address should I use (root or root@hostname doesn't work)?

   If you host domain and email domain are different, you can set
   the email domain in your ~/.muttrc with
   
   set hostname=home.com
   
   In Fetchmail, you can set a specific domain for your email
   username with
   
   smtpaddress home.com
   
   so, a .fetchmailrc might look like:
   
   poll mailserver.isp.com with proto POP3
   	user jcoppock
	password ****** is jcoppock
	smtpaddress home.com
	
   which (I think) means jcoppock@mailserver.isp.com is
   jcoppock@home.com locally.
   
   jc

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Jeff Coppock		Nortel Networks
Systems Engineer	http://nortelnetworks.com
Major Accts.		Santa Clara, CA