you will need to let us know. if the machine is registered in DNS as an MX record. it's all fine and well you installing either sendmail, postfix, or some other mail server on your box. but if DNS doesn't recognise it then you have a few problem.
> > Dear Sluggers > > I am new to linux and I want to be able to send and receive email from my > linux box. > > When I log in as root my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I > can use sendmail to send an email to my hotmail account. However I want to > be able to send email as say [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do I do this if I log on as > root? > > I don't understand how you set up your mail user agent in unix. In windows I > tell the email user agent what my pop server and smpt server is. The client > communicates with these servers. Easy. > > I am trying to use pine. I can't see where pine tells me what my pop and > smtp servers are. Am I blind? Is pine and elm merely mail readers as > opposed to an email user agent. I can read roots mail with the mail > readers. > > All I want to do is be able to send an email and receive and email as > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have looked at the sendmail site and it immediately trails > off into how to set up pop servers etc. It is not immediately obvious where > it explains how to do the trivial stuff! > > Paul > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
