On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Jun 1999, Akintayo Holder wrote:
> > David Rysdam wrote:
> > >
> > > The first question is: Why do you want to use sendmail? Sendmail is a
> > > Mail Transport Agent. MTA's move email from server to server via SMTP.
> > > Generally speaking, you needn't setup your own MTA.
> > then how do send mail from your computer e.g. GIMP can mail a pic to
> > root but not over the net
> > --
> Easily.... choose your favorite end-user app and go into the configuration and
> tell it the name of your ISP's mail server. For example, I'm using KMail and
> the configuration allows for both POP/SMTP mail and Sendmail. I chose the
> POP/SMTP option, since I'm single user.
> In Kmail it's under "file/settings/network options" there I can configure the
> location for Sendmail and enable use of SendMail by clicking the "radio button"
> for Sendmail useage or just click on the "radio button" for POP/SMTP and enter
> the appropriate info. In most cases that's something like mail.your-isp.com
> (replace with appropriate info -- if you're not sure, call your isp and ask!)
And all of a sudden you have to dial out to send local mail...
Frank
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