On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, savanna wrote:
> I'm currently trying to get email going on my Mandrake 7.2 laptop, just
> wondering if I'm going about it the hard way (it seems a lot of work). I've
Mail can be complex, buy the common case you describe should be easy.
> I've installed getmail to
> get my mail from the different POP servers - that was easy.
>
> Sending mail seems a bit harder - the doco suggests I install a mail server
> like sendmail, exim or qmail. Is that really necessary?
Some mail clients, such as pine, have a built-in MTA. ie they talk SMTP to
your ISP. This only works when you are online of course.
> Is there any easier
> way to do it? (looking at the web pages for email servers, it seems a major
> amount of study is required to get a mail server going).
You dont need to understand sendmail to use it. Nobody really understands
sendmail.cf . Just install the standard package. Relaying should be turned
off already. You may want to change one thing - set your ISP mail relay as
a 'smart host'.
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