On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 12:20:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi , > I have a mail account at my ISP which is SMTP. Can somebody please > explain to me how to set up smail so that I can send and receive mails > from my machine...Right now, I am using netscape mail, but not very > comfy with that. (I did look at the HOWTO, but can not make head or tail out > of it)
Hello Vaidhy, please press return evry 80 characters or so, netscape puts whole paragraphs in a single line, thank you. Start smailconfig (maybe you need to provide option "--force") as root. Then choose option (1) Internet host. Answer the questions, it should be pretty straightforward, but feel free to ask questions (I use exim, and don't rmember the exact questions). The important thing is "smarthost", which should be YES and set to your SMTP host name. You are done. You may want to try exim, which has easier configuration file. eximconfig is similar to smailconfig, but Smarthost is a seperate choice (I think it was (2)) Bye, Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
