Re: [SLE] getting mail to use the smtp server
From: Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas_at_tiscali.es)
Date: 06/15/04
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:40:53 +0200 (CEST) To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
The Monday 2004-06-14 at 21:13 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
> > > According to man mail, a command like 'set smtp=smtp.your_isp.com'
> > > should do it.
> >
> > That would have to go into the $HOME/.mailrc file.
>
> Ah - that appears to be the missing link! I can have 'mail' send
> messages now. Thanks!
Welcome!
>
> > Just a note: The program "mail" included in recent versions of SuSE
> > (since perhaps 8.1 or 8.2) is in fact, "nail" - as can be seen from
> > "man mail". This new mail program is way more powerfull than the old,
> > standard, "mail" program.
>
> (Running 8.2 here)
> sh: ~> file /bin/mail
> /bin/mail: symbolic link to ../usr/bin/nail
> sh: ~> file /usr/bin/Mail
> /usr/bin/Mail: symbolic link to nail
> sh: ~> file /usr/bin/mail
> /usr/bin/mail: symbolic link to nail
> sh: ~> file /usr/bin/mailx
> /usr/bin/mailx: symbolic link to nail
> sh: ~> rpm -qf /usr/bin/nail
> mailx-10.3-31
>
> Everything is just the same, eh?
Yes, now they are. Previously they were different, and I had to download
and compile "nail" myself to get the extra features it has compared to the
"mail" that came with the system.
>
> Uhm, I just never took the effort to install the local mail system and
> find out how to set more than one provider and that sort of things.
> With wvdial and wvdial.conf it's very clear and easy, so I'd rather
> stick with that.
Getting mail from different providers (accounts) is very easy, with
almost anything. I use fetchmail. Sending from different accounts is more
dificult. Programs like "mozilla" have the possibility to send trhough
different smtp servers, acording to the identity used to write the email.
Tuning the local smtp machine to do the same is more difficult: it is far
easier to simply use sendmail or postfix to send directly to each
destination - with a problem, because recently, as a side efect of
spammers and viruses, more and more servers are rejecting mail sent from
dynamic addresses. :-/
However, now postfix seems to admit configuration of different smtp
servers to relay mail to, according to the from address - I still have not
tried that: and the default postfix on suse 8.2 can not do that.
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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson
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