Sheer horror: > OK, I tried to make my 'receiving mail from outside' to work, and I > lost all my mail that was still on 'the mailserver', due to bad > fetchmail configuration file.
If it's that easy to destroy one's mail with some unperceived error I'm only confirmed in not migrating my mailing from the reliable, fully transparent DOS environment to the Linux box. And sorry, Ray, your best efforts to solve the riddle does not help if the user doesn't get a clue about how "listening to port 25" is related to the "mail queue" - it's deficiencies of the most fundamental contextual explanations that put newbies off time and again. (And what I call "specialised blindness" - try to find out from the "standard" beginner's bibles like "Running Linux" or "Linux in a Nutshell" what the "meta key" is, or what is meant with "filetype", <bg>). // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2003-03-21 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
