* Can get but can't send mail from my Red Hat 9
@ Krister Ekstrom
` Geoff Shang
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Krister Ekstrom @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
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Hi speakup,
This is probably a fairly easy one, only i can't figure it out.
I'm trying to do mail from my Linux box running Redhat 9
speakupenabled. Now i'm trying to figure out how to go about sending
mail from the system. Someone wrote to me privately and said that he
let his ISP do the smtp-bit for him, but i never got an answer to
how this was accomplished, (or i may have dumped it somewhere, but i
hope not.:-)), so could you please tell me how you do it, because
obviously there's a way of doing this, only i haven't as of yet been
able to figure that one out.
TIA
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/Krister
mailto:crisekstrom@bredband.net
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread* Re: Can get but can't send mail from my Red Hat 9 Can get but can't send mail from my Red Hat 9 Krister Ekstrom @ ` Geoff Shang ` Krister Ekstrom 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Geoff Shang @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Hi: there's two ways you can do this. You can either get your mail server to talk to your ISP's SMTP server, or you can get your mail program to do it directly. The advantage of getting your mail server to do it is that if you have more than one user on your system, you will be able to send mail locally between them and also you will only have to configure the outgoing mail thing in one place, rather than have potentially several different mail clients configured to do it direct to your ISP. IT also has the advantage that, if you use dialup, your mail server can queue the outgoing mail and send it all when you connect to your ISP, and this won't get in the way of anything else you're doing. Exactly how you do this will depend on which mail server you are running (for the first method) or which mail program you use (for the second). Geoff. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Can get but can't send mail from my Red Hat 9 ` Geoff Shang @ ` Krister Ekstrom ` Joe Clever 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Krister Ekstrom @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Geoff Shang -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Geoff, On 27 Oct 2003 00:40:57 (my local time 26 okt 2003 15:40:57), you typed:: GS> Exactly how you do this will depend on which mail server you are running GS> (for the first method) or which mail program you use (for the second). Ok, it looks as if Sendmail is started by default, but i'm planning on using Postfix, since this should be easier to set up, or so i'm told, and for mailer i will be using Mutt. Does this make any sence? - -- /Krister crisekstrom@bredband.net Get pgp keys here: mailto:crisekstrom@bredband.net?subject=get_pgp_keys -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-nr2 (Windows XP) iD8DBQE/m99fODlJeoMTOQsRA2SUAKDKu+SQO+FM+uakZbRpoy9mdPk7KwCdHq8r k1Lbo8STda4Gc0rLUyOqixs= =Isbb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* RE: Can get but can't send mail from my Red Hat 9 ` Krister Ekstrom @ ` Joe Clever 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Joe Clever @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Krister, If you have both sendmail and postfix installed on your system, there is a tool in Redhat 9 to switch between them. Run the command "redhat-switch-mail" and then select postfix, if that is what you want. My suggestion is that you run the pine mail program to see if you can communicate with your ISP's MTA, before trying to configure postfix with mutt or postfix with pine. I think that pine works pretty much right out of the box with the exceptions of the same things you would have to configure with any MUA. Within pine there is a setup|configure menu, so no need to muck with a config file, directly. I prefer to break things down into small steps, before tackling something more complex, i.e. MUA to ISP, before MUA to your MTA to ISP's MTA. I have not used mutt, but someone pointed out in another thread that mutt may not be capable of sending mail directly to your ISP. One of these days I will setup mutt because I want threaded mail. A caveat, make sure that you do not have firewall rules blocking any of the services that you wish to run. On installation of Redhat 9, you were asked what kind of security/firewall rules you wanted to run with. On a personal note, I have been struggling with Linux for several years. At times, it is frustrating because of the lack of, or the overabundance of often poor documentation. At times, I wonder if it is worth the effort. At times, I have had to walk away from it for awhile. As former president Clinton used to say, "I feel your pain". I really do. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 9:51 AM To: Geoff Shang Subject: Re: Can get but can't send mail from my Red Hat 9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Geoff, On 27 Oct 2003 00:40:57 (my local time 26 okt 2003 15:40:57), you typed:: GS> Exactly how you do this will depend on which mail server you are running GS> (for the first method) or which mail program you use (for the second). Ok, it looks as if Sendmail is started by default, but i'm planning on using Postfix, since this should be easier to set up, or so i'm told, and for mailer i will be using Mutt. Does this make any sence? - -- /Krister crisekstrom@bredband.net Get pgp keys here: mailto:crisekstrom@bredband.net?subject=get_pgp_keys -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-nr2 (Windows XP) iD8DBQE/m99fODlJeoMTOQsRA2SUAKDKu+SQO+FM+uakZbRpoy9mdPk7KwCdHq8r k1Lbo8STda4Gc0rLUyOqixs= =Isbb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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