Skippi, I missed the beginning of this thread, and know nothing about pygmy. But, you can set up some email clients under Linux to work just like they do under Windows, i.e, use POP3 to get email from your ISP and SMTP to send it back. Kmail is one example -- you configure it just like you would a similar client under Windows -- plug in things like the name of the POP3 and SMTP servers, the password for POP3 (and SMTP if necessary), etc. There are several Linux email clients that can work like this, although the only one I've personally tried is kmail. (I think the only ones that don't work like this will be the "command line" clients like Pine, Mutt, etc.)
This will make life a whole lot simpler. There are reasons I would like to have sendmail (really postfix), procmail, fetchmail and so forth set up on my Linux box (to use it as a mail server on my home LAN), but if you don't have requirements like this you don't need fetchmail and sendmail. Randy Kramer J. Craig Woods wrote: > > Hi everyone. First, thanks for all the on list & off list replies. Thanks > > to your input I have managed to fix a few little things with my fetchmail > > configuration (and for those who asked, yes I have been using fetchmailconf > > to set that up. I have made progress and fetchmail is now working. > > > > However, since this isn't going to be easy, I have discovered that sendmail > > must pass the mail from fetchmail to pygmy (the email reader). Am I right > > about that? So now it seems that sendmail doesn't work. Can anyone tell > > me > > > > According to Linux In A Nutshell sendmail is suppose to have a config file > > called /etc/sendmail.cf -- well, I have no such thing. I do have a > > /usr/lib/sendmail-cf/ directory with a load of subdirectories and a README > > file which was written for people much smarter than I am. At this point > > I'm "assuming" (take cover) that I need to set up sendmail. Can anyone > > clue me on how to do this? > > > > I love Linux, but this sure is a lot of work to read some emai. Can > > sendmail be set up as part of the install process? Or is there a reason > > that can not be done? Thanks again for all the help. > > > > Skippi > > Well try to be positive about the whole matter. If you think it has been > tough up to now, just wait until you tackle setting up sendmail. Yes, > fetchmail will need sendmail for mail delivery (or some equivalent > application). Yes, you must have a file named "sendmail.cf", and, yes, > it is normally in the directory "/etc". You should be able to find some > generic cf templates in "/usr/share/sendmail-cf/". You could use one of > these, just copy it to "/etc", and do your editing. My humble > suggestions to you would be to get some good documentation on using > sendmail, and how to set it up using fetchmail. Maybe, for the first > time, try using the application named "webmin". If all of this fails, > you could look into using postfix. It might be a tad easier to set up. > > I think you can choose sendmail as your mail delivery system during the > mandrake install process. Each linux distro seems to possess its own > peculiarities in this regard. Red Hat's default mail program is > sendmail, and mandrake chooses postfix--go figure... > > -- > J. Craig Woods > UNIX/NT Network/System Administration > > -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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