On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, chaitanya lakshminarayan wrote:
> How do I configure fetchmail or sendmail so that I receive and send mail
> through mail.utexas.edu email server?
to recieve mail with fetchmail:
make a ~/.fetchmailrc with something like the following in it:
set daemon 900 # check mail every 15 minutes
poll "mail.utexas.edu"
protocol pop3
username "username"
password "password" # chmod 600 ~/.fetchmailrc
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %s"
The fetchmail documentation has more detailed examples and information and
I believe it also comes with a script called 'fetchsetup' (in contrib/
which can be used to create the .fetchmailrc file. I don't think
fetchmail is involved in sending mail so you will need to use sendmail or
configure your mail client to use mail.utexas.edu as the smtp server. For
example, pine runs 'mail' (which might use sendmail or some other mta) to
send a message whereas netscape expects you to define an smtp server.
Unless you need to recieve mail through sendmail, you do not need to have
sendmail running in daemon mode but many mail clients expect the actual
program to be there.
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