Since you say your problems are cleared up, this message is just to clarify
a few loose ends.
At 03:33 AM 5/21/99 -0700, JF wrote [excerpts only, followed by replies]:
>> Fourth, are you running sendmail in daemon mode? (If you do a "ps -ax" do
>> you see an entry something like "sendmail: accepting connections on port
>> 25"?)
>
>Yes! it's there! Is this how to list running daemons?
Yes, or more precisely, to list ALL running processes. "man ps" for details
and other options.
>I don't know how to set it up to do so or how to determine what daemons
>are running. top and ps do not seem to list daemons. (At least neither
>shows fetchmail when IT is running in daemon mode.)
Do you mean "ps" without arguments? Yes, that will show only the processes
running under the userid of the shell running ps. You need the -a flag to
get all processes. top will show it, but if it is sleeping, it will be so
low on the process list that it may not make the main screen.
>Yes -- I'm using that in pine now. Haven't tried it in netscape which I'm
>also using.
>
>Does netscape use sendmail? Maybe I should try localhost for the smtp
>server there.
By all means do. Netscape uses the SMTP service; it shouldn't care whether
sendmail or some other MTA is running it.
>
>Do you know a document where I can learn the difference between how pop3
>and imap work? I know imap is for reading messages on a server. But since
>fetchmail is d/l'ing them I don't see much difference between using it and
>pop3.
Don't know a document offhand. In general terms, IMAP is more flexible about
how it handles mail -- can download it, let you read it from a server, or
probably do other things too. fetchmail uses imap in the simplest possible
way, not the most flexible.
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