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Hallo everyone,
I'm not certain I've got a
grasp of mail yet, so I could use your help. Currentli I've got smail,
fetchmail, tkmail, xlbiff and exmh installed. I don't know if I need all these.
>From what I understand of smail this is just used for local mail transport, uucp
and smtp. Now if I'm not connected to a network then I don't need uucp or smtp.
However I do connect to a pop3 server via TCP/IP (hence fetchmail.) Now I've got
smail configured for local use (no smtp or uucp) and fetchmail happily fetches
mail from the pop3 server. Happily this can be read in tkmail.
However, the smail
documentation doesn't appear to mention pop3 mail, and the fetchmail
documentation doesn't appear to deal with sending mail. So when I try to reply
to any message that has arrived via fetchmail, obviously, it cannot be
delivered. So what do I configure to send mail outside the local machine via
pop3?
I stuck the line "biff
y" in my .bashrc (I think I read somewhere that this notifies you when it
receives mail, but it appears that it only notifies you after you issue a shell
command. No command, no messages), and as xlbiff appears to be the X version I
assume that this goes in .xinitrc. However if I send myself messages xlbiff
doesn't display any mailboxes or such, instead I get a prompt that reads
"sh: scan command not found". Now, scan appears to be in /etc/mh,
installed as part of exmh. Which to my mind means that I haven't done something
with exmh that I should have. But what?
Any help configuring mail is appreciated, but
especially help in understand how everything fits together.
bye for now...
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