Re: postfix help
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 06:55:01PM -0500, Dave Bateman wrote:
> I saw from earlier postings that quite a few of you are using postfix.
> I've been using netscrape for e-mail
> and a recent bout with X convinced me that I should set up e-mail
> "properly".
> I managed to get postfix on my machine and exim off, but I could use
> a hand configuring postfix.
> My machine is strictly dial-up, so I downloaded fetchmail (will that
> work w/ postfix? suggestions?).
> I think I have fetchmail set up OK, eg;
>
> ~/.fetchmailrc
>
> bash-2.04$ cat .fetchmailrc
> poll pop.mindsprind.com protocol POP3 username batemand is
> dsb password xxxxxxx fetchall
>
Good. I have fetchmail in my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ so the mail gets
checked each time I go online. This takes some tweaking of the
config file as this script is run as root and the mail would get sent
to root.
> Is there a configuatorer/magic pill that sets up postfix, or am I
> going to edit main.cf/master.cf by hand?
No configurator. I also have a dialup and I use postfix's "trivial
rewrite" (I think that's what it's called) to rewrite pat@localhost
to pat7@gmx.net. If you want, I can send you my config files.
> Same question about mutt, will it work w/ postfix/fetchmail? edit
> .muttrc?
>
> Seems like a-lot of work compared to netscrape, but then, when X
> goes down and your only help is
> this mail-list...well, you get the point.
If you set up postfix, you should be able to send mail with netscape
by using localhost as your smtp server.
>
> TIA,
> Dave
>
> ----------
> One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
> No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. --- Elbert
> Hubbard
>
>
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