On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 08:59, Brad Beveridge wrote: > So for mail local to my machine, do I configure mozilla > mail to look at localhost for a mail server?
Yes, *if* you are running a POP or IMAP mail server, which by default you will not be. Generally, mail is delivered to a "mbox" file in /var/mail/<username> (or perhaps /var/spool/mail/<username>, or wherever $MAIL points). qmail systems generally deliver their mail to ~username/Maildir/new Because you're logged in to your own local machine, you can read things from the disks directly, instead of having to talk to a server process to do it for you. This is where the command-line programs mail, mailx, pine or mutt will look by default. On the other hand, GUI programs generally look for a mail server by default, and sometimes cannot be asked to look at local spool files. Evolution will, but my Mozilla won't (perhaps I just didn't look hard enough). > BTW - does Gentoo defaultly setup a mail server thingee? I can't > remember doing that before. Well, it's based on Debian, and Debian sets up Exim ... so there's a good chance. However, it might not be configured to do much of interest except local-local deliveries ... I guess you can run dpkg-reconfigure exim on a Gentoo box? -jim
