On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:56:19 -0700
Scott Leighton
On Sunday 19 September 2004 4:41 pm, Martin Farmilo wrote:
On Sunday 19 Sep 2004 13:12, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
No, incorrect. You *need* an MTA, SuSE defaults to postfix, or you would not receive system messages, reports, etc. KMail is incapable of handling this.
Hmm - this just caught my eye. I've been running Suse for around 6 months now, and had wondered about this issue. Am I supposed to be receiving emails from the system ? If so, is there something special (perhaps in kmail) I need to do to receive them ? Postfix is running on the system, but I've done nothing myself to manually configure it, and indeed can't find anything in the help / admin guide about it. I'd thought about disabling postfix, since it doesn't appear to be serving any useful purpose here, as I fetch / send all my mail direct via my ISPs servers.
Alias root to your email account at your ISP and set your ISP's mail server as the relay_host and you should get any local mail in your normal mailbox.
Hmm.. why not just set it up inside KMail to receive messages from the localhost? That way you wouldn't even to send it outside your pc/network and reveal things that are happening inside your pc. -- - E - on SUSE 9.1 | blackbox 0.70b2 | Panasonic CF-L1 Buffalo WLI-PCM-L11GP | copperwalls was here ;) "Look! I am making all things new." - Revelation 21:5