Re: [exim/fetchmail] A day in the life of an email

1998-12-15 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Just one minor comment, since others seem to be handling the query... > Mark Phillips wrote: ... > > 3. Fetchmail feeds this email into some black box (I don't understand > > this bit - is it a file or is it a program that is sitting around > > waiting for such events???). ... > There is

Re: [exim/fetchmail] A day in the life of an email

1998-12-10 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 06:17:20PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Mike Touloumtzis wrote: > > > 3) Set qualify_domain = ist.flinders.edu.au to make your locally > >generated mail appear to originate from that machine. This is > >potentially not necessary if ist.flinde

Re: [exim/fetchmail] A day in the life of an email

1998-12-10 Thread Mark Phillips
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Mike Touloumtzis wrote: > 3) Set qualify_domain = ist.flinders.edu.au to make your locally >generated mail appear to originate from that machine. This is >potentially not necessary if ist.flinders.edu.au accepts mail >for *.flinders.edu.au and the MX records are se

Re: [exim/fetchmail] A day in the life of an email

1998-12-09 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
Hi Mark, Some answers are given below. I hope they're correct; they're based on my experience in a similar situation (although my machine is behind a firewall). miket On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 11:00:45AM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I am looking at setting up mail properly on my machine. I h

[exim/fetchmail] A day in the life of an email

1998-12-09 Thread Mark Phillips
I am looking at setting up mail properly on my machine. I have an email account at university and use ppp to gain dial-up access to uni. I wish to set things up so that I can receive and send email from my local machine (rather than rlogin to a uni machine to read email as I do at the moment.) P

Re: [exim/fetchmail] A day in the life of an email

1998-12-09 Thread Mitch Blevins
Mark Phillips wrote: > I am looking at setting up mail properly on my machine. I have an email > account at university and use ppp to gain dial-up access to uni. I wish > to set things up so that I can receive and send email from my local > machine (rather than rlogin to a uni machine to read ema