A question about the initial smail configuration for Debian 1.3 I have never setup mail with any Linux dist before so I'm trying to work out what happens whenever.
I was going to try to setup sendmail with fetchmail to get POP mail but the default installation setup smail which is supposed to be easier. However, I made a .fetchmailrc file which was supposed to poll for mail and it worked. I was looking for some kind of fetchmail log file but found this file: /var/log/smail/logfile which contained information about the mail I had succesfully downloaded. Does this mean that fetchmail is merely an interface to smail and that smail actually grabbed the messages? My fetchmail command line to use my new rc file was fetchmail -f .fetchmailrc BTW: one of the options in my .fetchmailrc was "keep" which let me leave the mail on the server but on successive fetchmail commands it downloaded the same messages again. I suppose there must be some way of telling it not to grab mail that has already been downloaded. ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
