Getting Root mail in normal e-mail client

Brian Gaynor briang at pmccorp.com
Thu Apr 14 23:03:09 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 14:45 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:

> I will add to this.  On my ISP's mail server, I cannot send mail out 
> from my box using sendmail.  Even at work we have to modify the 
> /etc/mail/sendmail.xx files to get it to work.  We had to get sendmail 
> to masquerade the addresses for the mail server to accept our mail.
> 
> At home I have resorted to using pine to look at my local mail.  I 
> like pine though.  Must be my age showing. :)  I never could get 
> Mozilla to read my local mail but again, I haven't tried much.

You can always enable Dovecot (ships with FC) to get IMAP and or POP3
access to those local accounts. Dovecot is easy to configure, and POP3
and IMAP are widely supported by mail clients. 

-- 
Brian Gaynor
www.pmccorp.com
FC3/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz
canis 15:59:44 up 7:30, 1 user, 
load average: 0.31, 0.16, 0.08 





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