Getting Root mail in normal e-mail client

Neal Wilkinson forums.lists at comcast.net
Thu Apr 14 15:45:50 UTC 2005


Robert Slade wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:20, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
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>>Matthew Miller wrote:
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>>>On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:09:56PM +0000, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
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>>>>I can change that file but how do I tell my mail program to retrieve it? 
>>>>In other words for a regular inet account I just need my user name my 
>>>>password, and the mail server settings. How do I set it up to receive 
>>>>this mail?
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>>>It depends on your mail client. For many, looking at the local spool will
>>>just be the default.
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>>I swap back and forth now between Tbird and Evolution. Right now I'm 
>>using Thunderbird. How would I go about it there?
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>Matthew,
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>Sendmail running on the FC box is what is handling the mail the root
>address is root at yourmachinename. If you edit that line to something
>like:
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>root yourname at youraddress, sendmail will lookup the mx record and send
>the mail there. If this is your address at your ISP you should get it
>there depending on firewalls etc.
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>Just my thoughts.
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>Rob
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ok, I edited it to my e-mail address and will see what happens. Nothing 
yet.




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