A few (stupid?) smail questions
I am sorry if I ask stupid questions, but I will appreciate it if somebody
can help.
I am relatively new to Linux and am trying to set up connections to my
internet provider.
At the moment I can use a PPP-connection using minicom, logging in manually
and then running lynx, ftp, elm, tkmail or what else. (The examples and
(chat)scripts provided in PPP-HOWTO and ISP-hookup-howto and the
PPP-man-pages was not enough to help me to get a script running
successfully - after many hours of trying).
I have installed smail, elm end tkmail. What I want to know is how to get
smail to read my incoming mail from the Internet Service Provider.
What is smtp? Some of the smail-documentation told me to put a line in
inetd.conf to invoke smptd, but I could not find a file with that name on my
computer.
There was also a suggestion that I could put "sendmail -bs" in the file
/etc/rc. I could not find such a file either.
Do I need biff if I have a dialup ppp connection?
I tried to use rmail, but do not know which address to use in the command
line. If I use my own email-address, nothing happens. When I press Ctrl-C I
get the message that some process was interrupted and the mail deleted.
Which mail?
I have succeeded in sending a test message to myself from Elm and by
telnetting my ISP I could see that the message arrived.
At the moment I am using Windows 3.1 for all my email. I would like to use
Linux to do it, but find it very difficult to set the machine up to do it.
The Linux manuals and most of the programs are definitely not user-friendly.
Thank you to everyone who responded to my questions on LateX - the use of
longtable.
Johann Spies
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