Re: receiving emial
The delivery into /var/spool/mail/username is done by local delivery
service of your MTA (Sendmail, Exim, etc.). First, you should check,
if this is running. For example by: mail user -s Test < /etc/lilo.conf
If the message doesn't appear in /var/spool/mail/user then you have
something wrong with MTA.
If it works, then you really should read some of mail related howtos
from http://www.linuxdoc.org. ;-)
Radim
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 05:20:53PM -0700, Beavis wrote:
> hi list:
>
> i am wanting to become for familiar w/ the mailing system of linux
>
> if i have a ip address as follows:
>
> 62.234.24.5, can i reveive mail via root@62.234.24.5
> <mailto:root@62.234.24.5> or user@62.234.24.5 <mailto:user@62.234.24.5>
>
>
> if so, where does the mail go to? or do i need to set up exim or
> fetchmail to retreive the mail, but actually the mail should come
> locally right?
>
> i am asking because i am trying to set up the internel e-mail client of
> KDE
> and when i attempt to set up a local account it request which location
> the mail is in
>
> the default is: /var/spool/mail
> but always remains empty and the mail client can't open the file.......
>
> any quick tips would be lovely
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