Re: E-mail for dummies - part 2

1999-07-05 Thread scode 
 qmail and fetchmail are MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents), right?

qmail yes, fetchmail maybe, depending on your definition of an MTA.


 fetchmail downloads messages from a pop3/imap server and puts them into the
 local mail delivery system. (Besides, where do the messages end up and in
 what form?)

That depends on the MTA. For example, if you've got qmail up and running with
Maildir's, it will end up whereever you've told qmail to deliver it using a
.qmail file in your home directory.

 So what about sending mail then? Using 'smail' sounds obvious, but how does
 the route from MUA to the SMTP server go.

If you go with qmail that's not a problem. You simply set up a virtual
default domain, and have all mail not local delivered to a specific mailbox
(alias/pppdir if you follow the HOWTOs available). You then use a program
called maildirsmtp that will send the messages once you're online.

I'm told smail/sendmail are difficult to convince to work in a dial-up
environment. I certainly haven't suceeded.

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Glibc 2.0.7t-1 - 2.0.7u - that shouldn't break anything, should it?

1999-07-04 Thread scode 
As the subject says. 2.0.7t-1 and 2.0.7u sounds pretty compatible
to me. Right?

Thanks!

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Re: Allowing non-root users to start pppd.

1999-06-26 Thread scode 
 I use linux on a home computer, so I'm the only user, pretty much.  It's
 just a pain to always type the root password to start my internet
 connection with pon.  I was wondering what would be the best way to
 allow normal users to start the ppp connection?  I hope this hasn't been
 asked 6 million times.  Thanks!

Check out the super and sudo command ('man super' and 'man sudo').

sudo is probably easier. There are two stepd involved:

1 (as root) : chmod +s file_to_be_executed
2: add yourself to /etc/sudoers

See 'man sudo' for more information.

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