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[Mike McGinn]

On Tuesday 17 June 2008 21:12:08 Derek Broughton wrote:
> Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 15:47 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >> To get mail just use sudo apt-get install mailx and mailutil
> >
> > mailx is pretty ancient software, but is still usable.  I would not at
> > this time recommend it for the casual mail user.
>
> Well, it's a pain for actually _reading_ mail, but it's pretty much
> necessary if you want things like cron to deliver mail for you
> --
> derek

I am running gutsy, so your mileage may vary. Searching the Ubuntu forums I 
found this http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/networking/exim.html -- I took 
the plunge apt-get install mailx and got exim an some other stuff. As root I 
sent an email message to myself on my laptop. No configuration of exim was 
needed. I set up kmail for a local acount, took the defaults except I 
determined that FCNTL locking is what is needed. I then retrieved the email I 
sent myself as root. Best of all, I did nothing to exim for local delivery - 
it worked out of the box.

Next step will be to send mail off the computer using one of my gmail 
accounts.

-- 
Mike McGinn
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Code wrangling for over twenty years.
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