Dan Robinson wrote:
> Maybe most important, I don't have Linux email working yet. Lynx
> works fine. But I guess I don't understand the relationship between
> Mutt and Fetchmail/Sendmail. Mut says "No mailbox". I gather I'm
> supposed to create on under /var/spool/mail. How is that done?
There are many ways to set up mail. Do you get your mail through EFN?
What mail client do you want use? If you want a command line based
client, I recommend mutt. If you want to use a GUI, I'm not the guy
to ask. (-:
Also, which Linux distribution do you have on your desktop?
Your mailbox is automatically created when a program delivers mail to
you. That program could be sendmail, fetchmail, procmail, or
something else. Like Jacob said, this ought to do it.
echo "Hey" | Mail $USER
You might want to take a look at Eric Allman's old sendmail paper. It
will give you some background on what's going on. Since that paper
was written in the 1980s, new protocols such as POP and IMAP have
come into use. But it gives some historical perspective that you
may find useful. Or not.
http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/smm/09.sendmail/paper.pdf
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