On Tue, Oct 08, 2002, Paul Davies wrote: > I don't understand how you set up your mail user agent in unix. In > windows I tell the email user agent what my pop server and smpt server > is. The client communicates with these servers. Easy.
Some mail clients in UNIX/Linux, notably the graphical ones, do behave like this. Jeff's mail mentions several. I don't know which Windows mail reader you were using, but if it was Outlook, Evolution is probably the most similar. Netscape Mail you can probably find as either Netscape or Mozilla Mail on Linux. I don't know which one is closest to Eudora, but most of the graphical UNIX mail clients are very similar in features to Windows ones. > All I want to do is be able to send an email and receive and email as > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have looked at the sendmail site and it immediately > trails off into how to set up pop servers etc. It is not immediately > obvious where it explains how to do the trivial stuff! I'd strongly suggest switching to a graphical mail reader rather than trying to configure a mail transport agent, such as sendmail, at this stage. They're designed to be configured by people who are intending to run large, publically accessible mail servers. It can be quite difficult to find documentation on how to set them up as a simple local program that ferries messages to your ISP - it isn't really what they are designed for, although they can do it. It's also easy to spend a long time setting them up with no visible progress for a long time. Very annoying and off-putting. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
