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Re: receiving emial



Wouldn't that be /var/spool/mail ?
kent

----- Original Message -----
From: Beavis <beavis@bidz.com>
To: Alexandre Pereira da Silva <aletes@usa.net>
Cc: debian list <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: receiving emial


> 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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