> Kelvin Teh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Wow. There's starting to be more Singaporean Linux users around here these days.
On 09-Oct-98 Kelvin Teh wrote:
> I am a newbie to Linux and so please pardon me if my questions are
> ridiculously stupid/ignorant.
Don't worry about it. That's what this list is for. In any case, your questions
are pretty decent.
> I am trying to set up the linux box to be my personal web/mail server. I
> only have a 33.6k connection to my ISP and therefore cannot keep it up all
> the time. My question is this : how can i set up my machine so that it
> will download mail onto one place on my machine so that i am able to read
> it offline, compose message offline and then send it out at regular
> intervals. I would also like to be able to set up my machine so that i can
> host my own web pages and scripts so that i can learn perl and html better.
The Email problem:
If you just want to read and write email from Linux, you can always use an
email client like xfmail or netscape mail. These can handle most of your
requirements easily (I don't think netscape mail can automatically send
outgoing mail at regular interval) and setup is pretty effortless using a
simple GUI.
The other solution is to transfer the email from the server to a local mailbox
using fetchmail and sending outgoing mail via sendmail. This is a little more
complicated but offers greater flexibility especially in the choice of email
clients. You may want to look at the Mail-HOWTO first if you wish to chose this
route.
The Web Server problem:
Basically, just install the apache package (if it's not already there) and
that's it! Run httpd to start the server. Stop it by sending it a kill signal.
That should be sufficient for practising HTML and Perl. You may need to modify
/etc/inetd.conf or one of the rc files (differs according to distribution) if
you need the server to distribute content across the inet.
> btw Does anyone know how to set arena or lynx so that it routes through a
> proxy.
Proxy eh? You must be another victim of the local Internet regulation...
I'm not sure about arena. Try the WWW_PROXY environment variable.
For Lynx, try editing the lynx.cfg file. Mine is in /usr/lib/lynx/lynx.cfg but
YMMV.
Cort
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