On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 08:02, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2004-11-14 at 22:21 +0530, rada and gus wrote:
David, hanks for your really fast reply. Looks like you're right in what the cause is, but I can't fix it with Yast and also keep root's mail being sent to me (I have a laptop and am the only user on my system). The first screen in Yast->Mail Transfer Agent gives three options: 1)permanent 2)dial up 3)no connection. I tried removing the smtp and pop entries in - 2)dial up - but any data I delete and leave blank leads to an error message and I can not move on to the next screen and to finish. 3) - does not give me any option for root's mail. Since I have a dial up then 1) is not an option.
As a matter of fact, it is. I use dial-up, but nevertheless, I used option 1, permanent connection.
I have done that for years. Why? because otherwise, the smtp server is not permanently up, and local email some times doesn't get sent. The trick is that I use the script ip-up.local to remind postfix or sendmail to send email when the connection goes up.
It continues to amaze me how configurable and flexible linux is. Nice tip. Thanks. Gus.