Re: A few (stupid?) smail questions
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On Sat, 28 Sep 1996 jhspies@ilink.nis.za wrote:
jhspies>I have installed smail, elm end tkmail. What I want to know is how to get
jhspies>smail to read my incoming mail from the Internet Service Provider.
popclient -u <user> <host>
^^^^ ^^^^> put your ISP hostname here
put your username here (on your ISP)
and your mail will be poped from your isp folder to your local folder
(that ofcourse if you have your smail configured, if not - run
`/usr/sbin/smailconfig` )
jhspies>What is smtp? Some of the smail-documentation told me to put a line in
jhspies>inetd.conf to invoke smptd, but I could not find a file with that name on my
jhspies>computer.
smtp - send-mail-transfer-protocol
inetd.conf is in /etc dir
jhspies>There was also a suggestion that I could put "sendmail -bs" in the file
jhspies>/etc/rc. I could not find such a file either.
u don't need it
jhspies>Do I need biff if I have a dialup ppp connection?
no
jhspies>I tried to use rmail, but do not know which address to use in the command
jhspies>line. If I use my own email-address, nothing happens. When I press Ctrl-C I
jhspies>get the message that some process was interrupted and the mail deleted.
jhspies>Which mail?
rmail -s <address>, write a mail, press cntrl-D for sending
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