On 8/15/2011 11:13 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > > > > It seems that the telnet problem is a simpler one than the mail/mailx > > and if I can at least get telnet working, then I am closer to getting > > mail/mailx working. > > > > Any suggestions? > > 1) Why telnet? SSH is much more secure and should work out the box. > > 2) What exactly are you trying to accomplish with the mailx stuff? Do > you want mail to go directly between machines rather than to a central > server? > 1) telnet is only being used to test why I can't use it ... ssh/scp is my preferred method under regular usage 2) I want to send mail between the Linux boxes on the local LAN and wish to treat each box as independent rather than organize them into clients/server. I already have figured out (with much help from this community and my email provider) how to send email from each of them to my thunderbird account maintained elsewhere (which I am currently accessing from Win XP / Win 7 but hope to eventually deploy Thunderbird on one or more of my Linux boxes. To be honest, I won't die if I can't do this. But it sure seems like I should be able to and that is why I am asking. Thanks for your response, Paul -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
