Re: How to use Netscape mail w/local mail system?
How i set it up is as follows:
Installed smail for SMTP,
( i use "runq" to force delivery in ip-up.d and in
a wrapper script for POFF ).
Installed fetchmail to retrieve mail from my ISP and pass it to the above,
( fetchmail is fired up by ip-up.d and stopped by
ip-down.d ).
installed qpopper for POP3 to retrieve the above with netscape.
Told netscape my SMTP server is localhost,
POP3 server is localhost,
logon = my linux user name ,
password = my linux logon password.
works fine so i also get any local system mail coming in >;0).
Cheers
Jesse Evans wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I've got Netscape 4.5 installed on my slink system. How do I get
> Netscape Mail to read from my local mail spool? I use a dial-up connection and
> have fetchmail set to periodically grab mail from my ISP POP account. This ends
> up putting mail in my system's /var/spool/mail/<my_user_name> directory, from
> which I can access it using mutt, Kmail, or whatever. Most of the mail client
> programs I've experimented with have an option to be set up for this with no
> problems (for instance, KMail has a "Use Local Mail" choice which works just
> fine), but Netscape doesn't seem to capable of doing this.
>
> In Preferences>Mail & Newsgroups->Mail Servers I've selected Using
> Movemail->Use Built-in Movemail. When I ask for a new mail check, I get an
> error message complaining that Netscape cannot write to my mail directory. (It
> says it needs to write lock files.) It suggests that I set the permission of
> that directory to 01777 (it's currently -rw-rw----), but doing so (it
> becomes -rw-rw-rwT) does not correct the problem. It also says that an external
> setgid/setuid Movemail program could be used in the event that all else fails
> and refers me to the Release Notes for more info.
>
> Well, the Release Notes don't cover this and I don't know what might
> qualify for an external movemail program. Has anyone out there in Debian-land
> made this feature work? Thanks in advance for all your help.
>
> --
> 'til next we type...
> HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
>
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