Thanks a lot (Michael)... That makes sense. I tend to get a bit paranoid (as if I was blind and fearful of tripping).
I've given myself alot of stuff to practice. Since I don't really understand mail, I just tried to work around it--now I've got lots of different mail packages installed that I want to get rid of. Actually, mutt-exim-fetchmail would be fine, but I don't quite understand it. with mail clients in general, you must specify a pop and smtp server. now, with exim, (or any mta?) I am the smtp server, right? I wrote a test message with mutt, and it arrived, but identified me as only "root". so do I have to give myself an alias, or what? What's keeping me from having a header that reads, [EMAIL PROTECTED], as opposed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've seen the "percent hack" at work in someone elses header..is that what I need to use? Thanks for your patience...I'm an idiot! -tf
