Re: Pine

[Matthew John Palmer <nospam [at] uow.edu.au>]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Richard wrote:

> 2/  Does it just work with sendmail or can I get it to work with POP3 

AFAIK the POP3 protocol spec only deals with the storage and retrieval of
sent mail.  It does not say anything about sending mail.  For that, we have
the wonderful services of SMTP.

> 3/  My ISPs server does not recognise my richard [at] sheflug.co.uk 
> address if I use a Linux mail app to send or receive mail through 
> that address.  But it works fine with MS Windows.  Any ideas what 
> this is about ?

This is probably related to a bar on mail forwarding from outside the
domain.  You'll probably find that mail sent from MS Windows still has a
remnant of your ISPs details in there so it'll work properly.

I'm pretty much guessing here because I know nothing of your setup.  I also
have very little knowledge about modern windows mail apps (the last one I
used was a very early Eudora).

The simplest way to do things as far as mail goes (I'm assuming you're on a
part-time modem link, otherwise it's even easier) is set up sendmail to send
directly to the recipient, but make SMTP an expensive protocol, and turn
expensive initial send OFF.  That way sendmail will only try to send mail
off to remote hosts when you specifically tell it to (by running sendmail
with -q).  Then tell pine to deliver to your local machine, and all should
be well.  Just run (via a ppp-on script) sendmail -q when the link comes up.

The technical details of how to do all this are available in the HOWTOs.  It's
really very simple.

>   GNU the choice of a complete generation.

Personally I prefer "Linux: the choice of a GNU generation" myself.  But
each to their own.

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