David List wrote:
>I am trying to set up Mozilla 0.9.4 on a Linux kernel 2.4.10 system. I have
>a problem setting up localhost as mail- and newsserver.
>
>Setting up localhost as the newsserver, I only get a message about the
>server refusing the connection, when trying to subscribe to newsgroups. I
>have KNode set as my newsreader now, and this program gets newsgroups and
>newsmessages just fine from localhost.
>
>My problem with setting up localhost as mail-server is not setting the
>smtp-server. It's the options I get when I try to set up which way to
>connect to the mail-server that should recieve the mail. I cannot see which
>settings I should choose. The settings I have tried don't work. I use KMail
>as my mail-client now, and this program sends mail through localhost as the
>smtp-server and gets mails through localhost by fetching new mail from
>/var/spool/mail/[username].
>
>Why can't the newsreader connect to localhost?
>Which settings should I use to get mail from localhost from
>/var/spool/mail/[username]?
>
I don't know how it works since I have never used it, but I think that
the sole purpose of the Movemail component is to retrieve mail from
localhost. Look at http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/movemail/ .
