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[Karl Larsen]

Mike McGinn wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
    On my computer I have exim on Hardy but the important eximconf does 
not work. I can look around and see if the config exists but $locate 
eximconf finds nothing. So versions change. As for sending and receiving 
email my stuff works fine between user and root. On my new Hardy there 
was no /var/spool/karl but it made one when there was mail.

Karl


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