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Topic 12 of 32: sendmail

Tue, Jun 10, 1997 (13:38) | Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
This about sendmail and particularly about popmail.

How do you start it, maintain it and tweak it?

8 responses total.


 Topic 12 of 32 [unix]: sendmail
 Response 1 of 8: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jun 10, 1997 (13:39) * 3 lines

How do you get sendmail to issue to notificationi alerts of incoming mail
when you're at shell prompt? It does this on barton.spring.com but ont on
our www.spring.com machine. Or is this a function of the user account?


 Topic 12 of 32 [unix]: sendmail
 Response 2 of 8: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jun 10, 1997 (13:41) * 21 lines

Here's the party line (from the BSDI man page):

Sendmail sends a message to one or more recipients, routing the message
over whatever networks are necessary. Sendmail does internetwork for-
warding as necessary to deliver the message to the correct place.

Sendmail is not intended as a user interface routine; other programs pro-
vide user-friendly front ends; sendmail is used only to deliver pre-for-
matted messages.

With no flags, sendmail reads its standard input up to an end-of-file or
a line consisting only of a single dot and sends a copy of the message
found there to all of the addresses listed. It determines the network(s)
to use based on the syntax and contents of the addresses.

Local addresses are looked up in a file and aliased appropriately.
Aliasing can be prevented by preceding the address with a backslash.
Normally the sender is not included in any alias expansions, e.g., if
`john' sends to `group', and `group' includes `john' in the expansion,
then the letter will not be delivered to `john'.


 Topic 12 of 32 [unix]: sendmail
 Response 3 of 8: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jun 13, 1997 (13:59) * 26 lines

Why is it that I get email notification on barton.spring.com
but not on www.spring.com. The notification pops up
when I am sitting arond in a shell, like this:

New mail for terry@barton.spring.com has arrived:
----
From: Domain Registration Role Account
Subject: Re: [NIC-970610.13373] WEBZINE.COM
The following template has been returned due to the following errors.
Please review the instructions in the domain registration template
available at ftp://rs.internic.net/templates/domain-template.txt.

The glossary of the parser errors is available at:
...more...

New mail for terry@barton.spring.com has arrived:
----
Subject: Re: 20" Monitor
From: Rojo@apple.com, Laura
Terry,

>Also, who at Apple would be the decisionmaker on sponsoring a
>community conferencing system like the Spring?
barton:~

etc...


 Topic 12 of 32 [unix]: sendmail
 Response 4 of 8: Ted Chong (tedchong) * Fri, Jun 13, 1997 (20:46) * 15 lines

Terry, you have to run a shell that can alert you new mails or
run a program in your startup file that can do the same.

If you run csh or tcsh (use chsh to change), it will promopt
"you have new mail(s)" when new emails arrive after a
command is completed.

If you like to have some parts of your new email shown, you
have to put "biff y" on your .bashrc or .login or .cshrc
file. Or you can use "newmail -i 90" to check for new
mails every 90 secs in one of the 3 files mentioned.

See "man biff" and man "newmail" for more details.


 Topic 12 of 32 [unix]: sendmail
 Response 5 of 8: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Jun 14, 1997 (09:50) * 2 lines

Yeah, I'm running bash. No reason. It's just the
one of always used. What shell do you run and why?


 Topic 12 of 32 [unix]: sendmail
 Response 6 of 8: Ted Chong (tedchong) * Sun, Jun 15, 1997 (00:57) * 5 lines

I like tcsh, just like you like apple I like orange.
Well, if you use bash, be sure to put "biff y" in
youe .bashrc file.


 Topic 12 of 32 [unix]: sendmail
 Response 7 of 8: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jun 15, 1997 (02:11) * 2 lines

Why?


 Topic 12 of 32 [unix]: sendmail
 Response 8 of 8: Ted Chong (tedchong) * Mon, Jun 16, 1997 (01:26) * 4 lines

putting "biff y" in your .bashrc file will notify you if
new email is arriving...

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