[plug] Sendmail

[madco]

The computer is going to use a dial up connection for the mail to the 
outside world as well as the lan for the internal one. I have it pretty 
much set up now, just have to wait till tomorrow to test it, when no-one is 
in the office.

Thanks
Christian

At 10:09 23/02/01 +0800, you wrote:
>Christian,
>
>Sendmail comes pretty much configured.
>But depending what you want to do you will need to add a couple of things.
>Are you using a dial-up connection? or do you have a permanent connection? 
>are you hosting your mail or do you need to "pop" it off, this sort of 
>info you need to know first before you set-up your config.
>
>Remember Sendmail just sends mail not collects ( ie gets mail from a pop3 
>server), therefore you will need another bit of software like fetchmail.
>
>Check out Sendmails' web page at www.sendmail.org or do "man sendmail" it 
>comes with some very good HOW-TO pages.
>
>
>
>
>Regards
>
>Paul Dean
>IT Support Officer
>Canning College
>Computing Centre
>Ph: 9350 5430
>Mob: 0408 902 206
>paul at canningcollege.wa.edu.au
>
>