At 23:35 28/05/00 , you wrote:
>
>I'm not sure what you're actually trying to do now.. You want to be able
>to send outgoing e-mail from your machine with Sendmail, is that it? If so
>.. you only need Sendmail to be running on YOUR machine. .. Your ISPs mail
>server has nothing to do with it, really.. As long as Sendmail runs on
>your machine, you should be able to send mail anywhere you want.
then, the question is : how do i send mail to some outside address in the
internet ( say, my own address in the internet, as seen in the From: entry
of this mail ).
>To RECEIVE e-mail (and reading them with Pine), you need to use an
>application that will get mail from your ISPs POP3/IMAP server. Fetchmail
>is the most popular one. Once configured (there is a tool called
>fetchmailconf that does the job well), Fetchmail will get all your e-mail
>in as many accounts as you want and dump them (through Sendmail) on your
>local machine.
i have not tried to learn to get mail from the internet.
i'm just trying to send mail to somebody in the internet, not in my own
network.
>Thus you have *no* need for your ISPs "Sendmail" server. :)
>
>--
>Marc-Andre Dion can be reached from these places:
>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 3063664
very many thanks,
frans t.
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