On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 06:55:01PM -0500, Dave Bateman wrote: > I saw from earlier postings that quite a few of you are using postfix. > I've been using netscrape for e-mail > and a recent bout with X convinced me that I should set up e-mail > "properly". > I managed to get postfix on my machine and exim off, but I could use > a hand configuring postfix. > My machine is strictly dial-up, so I downloaded fetchmail (will that > work w/ postfix? suggestions?). > I think I have fetchmail set up OK, eg; > > ~/.fetchmailrc > > bash-2.04$ cat .fetchmailrc > poll pop.mindsprind.com protocol POP3 username batemand is > dsb password xxxxxxx fetchall >
Good. I have fetchmail in my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ so the mail gets checked each time I go online. This takes some tweaking of the config file as this script is run as root and the mail would get sent to root. > Is there a configuatorer/magic pill that sets up postfix, or am I > going to edit main.cf/master.cf by hand? No configurator. I also have a dialup and I use postfix's "trivial rewrite" (I think that's what it's called) to rewrite [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want, I can send you my config files. > Same question about mutt, will it work w/ postfix/fetchmail? edit > .muttrc? > > Seems like a-lot of work compared to netscrape, but then, when X > goes down and your only help is > this mail-list...well, you get the point. If you set up postfix, you should be able to send mail with netscape by using localhost as your smtp server. > > TIA, > Dave > > ---------- > One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. > No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. --- Elbert > Hubbard > > -- Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If puns were deli meat, this would be the wurst.
