Re: receiving emial

[Beavis <beavis@bidz.com>]

just one more question, where is my local spool dir for mail?



----- Original Message -----
From: Alexandre Pereira da Silva <aletes@usa.net>
To: Beavis <beavis@bidz.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: receiving emial


> I think the right way is root@[62.234.24.5]. After this your mail will go
to
> your local spool dir. There is not need to use fetchmail as any mail
reader
> can do this directly but you can use fetchmail to get your mail from a
local
> pop server but this is useless. Maybe exim needs some setup but try it
first
> and them look at the logs.
>
> Em Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 05:20:53PM -0700, Beavis escreveu:
> > 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 or
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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