Re: Pine, mailservers and the like

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

On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

>  Can I run mail/pine on my box to fetch/send mail from this server, and
> not have pine throw a wobbly because my machine`s domain name is
> shaitan.localdomian (and not foo.ecosse.net)?

Yes.

Configure pine so that user-domain is foo.ecosse.net and Pine will be quite
happy - as will the remote mail service.

>  Also, I assume I need to setup and run sendmail to fetchmail for myself
> and flatmate from multiple accounts, for delivery to multiple machines
> across the flat LAN. Correct? And how much hassle is that?

Not a lot.  Tell fetchmail to grab the mail from the appropriate accounts
nad then mail the resulting messages to the right account at the right
machine.  The sendmail program will handle the rest, so long as the other
aspects of the system are right (nameserving, sendmail config, etc).  That's
ther harder part - fetchmail's the dead simple bit.


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