Re: emails newbie
At 12:04 15-11-00 +0000, you wrote:
Can
anyone help me to configure my box to send and receive email i don't know
where to start. messed around with exim but seem to have messed it up. I
really am starting from scratch. I can connect to the internet using pon
but that's all
thanks
jm
You needs exim to sent messages to your isp's smtp server (smarthost) or
to local users. In my case, running the eximconf script was enough to get
it working right away. I did not have to change anything in
/etc/exim.conf. But it is best to check the exim.conf file after running
eximconf anyway.
Exim is not able to retrieve messages from your isp's pop server(s). You
need fetchmail for that. Fetchmail uses a fetchmailrc files which you
have to make and which contains information about the pop server it has
to retrieve mail from, username and password and usually which user
fetchmail has to send the messages to.
You need a Mail User Agent (MUA) to read the messages and compose new
messages. Mutt is a very good MUA.
For more details:
www.exim.org
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Mail-Administrator-HOWTO.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Mail-User-HOWTO/index.html
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