On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, John J. Boyer wrote: > If I get hold of such a HowTo I'll post the URL to the list, > unless, of course, someone on the list actually provides it. All of the most current HOWTOs should be at http://www.linuxdoc.org/, or at the beginning of the HOWTOs, there should be a pointer to where the most current one is. Most distributions install a set of them in /usr/doc/HOWTO, or more currently, /usr/share/doc/HOWTO, on your local hard drive. See below for specific info... > > -----Original Message----- > > [mailto:blinux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of John J. Boyer > > > > ... > > I've been reading the manuals for Fetchmail and Pine, but I can't quite The other posters have explained about fetchmail and pine, so I skip that. > > figure out where to put the various information for setting up an e-mail > > account. So I'm wondering if there is a howto that explains step by step > > what to do to set upo an e-mail account in RedHat. I recently posted detailed directions for RedHat systems running sendmail. You can find it in the blinux archives under the subject heading: "Re: sendmail problem" There is an attachment called sendmail-masq-add.mc and that name also appears in the body of the message (good search string). > > My current e-mail address, director@chpi.org is provided by > > our Webhosting service. We also have DSL from a different > > company. To set up this account on Linux, i will have to > > specify the webhosting company's server for incoming mail, > > the DSL company's server for outgoing mail, So the DSL company would probably be known to "sendmail" as your gateway: dnl "dnl" starts a comment dnl Add this if your ISP requires you to use an outgoing mail gateway: dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your_DSL_companys_gateway_mail_server.net') dnl Example: define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.DSLprovider.net') > > the account name assigned to be by the Webhosting company, my > > e-mail name, "director", and of course my password with the > > ... So you may want to have your mail appear to come from that address, or in other words, be masqueraded: dnl MASQUERADE_AS(your_ISP.net) dnl This is the machine you would pop your mail from (probably using fetchmail). dnl Example: MASQUERADE_AS(onewest.net) Sendmail also has some schemes for aliasing. Everyone should have, for instance, root aliased to their normal user account, in /etc/aliases (run "newaliases" after making any changes, to update the hashed database), so that system reports come to them. Never read mail as root. LCR -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html