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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H1 align="center"><A NAME="answer">
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<a href="./index.html">The Answer Guy</a>
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<H4 align="center">By James T. Dennis,
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<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a><BR>
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Starshine Technical Services,
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<A HREF="http://www.starshine.org/">http://www.starshine.org/</A> </H4>
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<H3><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" alt="(?)" width="50" height="28"
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align="left" border="0">Basic e-mail Setup for Linux?</h3>
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<p><strong>From Greg on 15 May 1998
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Hi again Answer Guy!
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<br><br>
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I E-Mailed you about a week ago regarding getting a
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<a href="tag_netcard.html">network card</a> to work under Redhat 5. I found
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that the problem was the motherbourd I was using (Intel al440lx) which
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after a bit of examination I found didn't work under NT with a network
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card either. Now with justa standard 166 I can reach my NT network fine
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and they can reach me too.
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<blockquote><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(!)"
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Glad you tracked it down.
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<p><strong><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(?)"
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My question for you this time is how I would set up email to be routed
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through my linux box between a NT network? I have read through a few of
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your tutorials (<a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue14/procmail.html"
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>mini-procmail</a> and other letters) but I am still left a
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little confused.
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<br><br>
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I attempted to send mail between the linux box and an NT box and while
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the mail sent eventualy, it was very slow (took 2 mins). I am sure this
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is a fairly simple thing to fix so your help would be much appreciated.
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<blockquote><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(!)"
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Two minutes is not slow for e-mail. Also '<tt>procmail</tt>' is a
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mail processing language --- it's geared for handling mail as it's
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delivered to the local machine. To get your mail to other
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machines you need an MTA, such as '<tt>sendmail</tt>' (the most widely
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used: <a href="http://www.sendmail.org/">http://www.sendmail.org/</a>
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or <a href="http://www.sendmail.com/">http://www.sendmail.com/</a>),
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'<tt>qmail</tt>'
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(<a href="http://www.qmail.org/">http:/www.qmail.org/</a>),
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'<tt>vmail</tt>' (<a href="http://wzv.win.tue.nl/vmail/"
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>http://wzv.win.tue.nl/vmail/</a>), '<tt>exim</tt>'
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(<a href="http://www.exim.org/">http://www.exim.org/</a>), or
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'<tt>smail</tt>' (<a href="http://www.sbay.org/smail-faq.html"
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>http://www.sbay.org/smail-faq.html</a>).
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e-mail is a complicated subject. However, there are a few
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LDP HOWTO documents to look at:
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<br><dl><dt>The first and most obvious to read would be:
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<dd><a href="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Mail-HOWTO.html"
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>http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Mail-HOWTO.html</a>
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</dl>
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You can browse around the other titles as you like.
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<br><br>
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It should be noted that there is nothing unusual about handling
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e-mail under Linux. All of the MTA's (transport agents, like
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'<tt>sendmail</tt>'), MDA's (delivery agents, like
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'<tt>procmail</tt>') and MUA's (user agents like '<tt>pine</tt>',
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'<tt>elm</tt>', and '<tt>MH</tt>') are all used on a
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variety of Unix implementations.
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<p><strong><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(?)"
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align="left" border="0">
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I have procmail on my system but I don't seem to have the configuration
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files for it. Do I have to make my own or have I screwed up somewhere. I
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am sure you have covered this on other sections of your site so if you
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can links would be great just to point me in the right direction.
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<blockquote><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(!)"
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If your system is configured to use '<tt>procmail</tt>' as the local
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delivery agent then you can simply create a <tt>~/.procmailrc</tt>
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script (that is a file named <tt>.procmailrc</tt> in your home
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directory) to use it. If not, you can create a <tt>.forward</tt>
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file (as described in my
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<a href="http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue14/procmail.html"
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>introduction to procmail article</a>) or you can reconfigure
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your MTA (probably <tt>sendmail</tt>) to change to it.
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The easiest way to tell is to simply create a <tt>.procmailrc</tt>
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file, send yourself a slice of mail and wait until it's delivered.
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It should be pretty obvious if the script works (you refile
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the message to a folder, or you "split off" a backup
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copy of it with one of the recipes I described).
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<br><br>
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However, you shouldn't have to create a '<tt>procmail</tt>' script
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for simple delivery into your "inbox" --- it's used to create
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auto-response scripts, and to do automated filtering, forwarding
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and filing.
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<br><br>
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I'd like to say alot more about e-mail as it is one of the
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most important aspects of the Internet. However, you may just
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have to wait for my book --- since that's how much there is
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to say on the subject. In any event it sounds like your
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e-mail is working so you'll definitely want to be more specific
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if you have other questions.
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<br><br>
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The best place to post questions on this topic is under the
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<a href="news:comp.mail">comp.mail.*</a> netnews hierarchy.
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Naturally you should look for the associated and
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<a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/bngusenet/comp/mail/misc/top.html">appropriate FAQ's</a> and just "lurk" on these
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lists for a little bit, to get some idea of what they are all
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talking about.
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<br><dl><dt>The international repository of FAQ's on the web is at:
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<dd><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/top.html">http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/top.html</a>
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</dl><dl><dt>... and for e-mail you'd want to look in:
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<dd><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/bngusenet/comp/mail/misc/top.html">http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/bngusenet/comp/mail/misc/top.html</a>
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</dl><dl><dt>Ohio State also maintains a wonderful repository of RFC's
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<dd><a href="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/information/rfc.html"
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>http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/information/rfc.html</a>
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</dl><dl><dt>Via FTP the magic FAQ site is still:
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<dd><a href="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/">ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/</a>
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</dl><dl><dt>... and for questions about e-mail you'd want to look in:
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<dd><a href="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/mail/"
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>ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/faqs/mail/</a>
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As I say --- there's nothing that's Linux specific about
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any of this.
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<br><br>
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There's also an FAQ wannabe site (<a href="http://www.faq.org/"
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>http://www.faq.org/</a>) that has a miserable excuse for a search
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engine and seems to point alot of queries off to the CIS
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department at Ohio. (Tsk, Tsk, they could at least
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mirror the docs if they're going to take that domain
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name!). [Actually, they point at infoseek, and <strong>it</strong>
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points off to Ohio. About the same, really.]
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</blockquote>
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<p><strong><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" width="50" height="28" alt="(?)"
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Thanks allot
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<br>Greg!
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 1998, James T. Dennis <BR>
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Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 29 June 1998</H5>
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