Excerpts from linuxchix: 15-Dec-99 RE: [techtalk] POP mail by Di
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> It's my PERSONAL email that I am concerned about with the POP. My
> regular email address is currently a Unix shell account. They do have
> POP3 setup but AFAIK not SMTP. If they do have it, I can't use it
> because I don't dial into them since it would be long distance anyways.
> So no matter what I do, I will not be in their domain.
If you don't use smtp, you can't send mail. You cannot send mail with
pop. smtp is the almost [1] only way to send mail. You will either
have to set up your own smtp server, or use someone else's. I assume
you do not want to set up an smtp server. Therefore, you will need to
find an smtp server that will allow you to use it. I wrote how to do
this in an earlier message, but I'll repeat it.
First, find out what your hostname is. I assume you know how to do
that. From your hostname, find your domain by taking the last two parts.
For example, my hostname is annex-5.ece.cmu.edu, so my domain is cmu.edu.
Next, find an smtp server for your domain. Use dig or host, and specify
a record type or query type of 'mx'. For example:
dig cmu.edu mx
or
host -t mx cmu.edu
If these commands are different on your computer, read the manpages. I
assume you know how to do that.
These commands will give you smtp servers. For example:
dreadnought:~> host -t mx cmu.edu
cmu.edu MX 5 CMU1.ACS.cmu.edu
cmu.edu MX 5 CMU2.CS.cmu.edu
means I can use either cmu1.acs.cmu.edu or cmu2.cs.cmu.edu.
If you cannot figure this out, I'll even do this for you. Just give me
the/a hostname of the machine you want to send from.
[1] I'm sure there's still some uucp or bbs mail systems out there..
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