Getting Root mail in normal e-mail client

[Robin Laing]

Robert Slade wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:20, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
> 
>>Matthew Miller wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:09:56PM +0000, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>>>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?
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>
>>>It depends on your mail client. For many, looking at the local spool will
>>>just be the default.
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>
>>I swap back and forth now between Tbird and Evolution. Right now I'm 
>>using Thunderbird. How would I go about it there?
> 
> 
> Matthew,
> 
> 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:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Just my thoughts.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> 

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.

When I move to FC4, I will play with my home system more to see if I 
can get it to work.

-- 
Robin Laing