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[Timothy C. Klein]

* Bob Collins (bcollins at fpcc.net) wrote:
> jdavis wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 14:34, Bob Collins wrote:
> > > I updated to SuSE 8.1 and now my e-mail is being sent to bob, my user login.
> > > Can anyone tell me what file I need to edit to change this?
> > >
> > > When I use yast to setup the Mail Transfer Agent it will not allow me to
> > > remove bob from Incoming mail / Local user.
> > 
> > what MTA and where is the mail supposed to go?
> 
> 
> Yast2 is the SuSE setup program.  I run Yast2 select Network/Basic/Mail
> Transfer Agent.  I then choose Dial-up {already has (x) filled in} and I
> then I see the following information filled in.
> 
> Outgoing mail server smtp.fpcc.net
> 
> Incoming Mail
> Downloading
> Server pop.fpcc.net 
> Protocol Auto
> Remote user name bcollins
> Password ******
> Local user bob
> 
> It doesn't indicate which MTA.
> 
> Maybe I should select No connection instead of Dial-up and that would
> fix the problem.  I will give it a try after I send this e-mail.  
> 
> I am on my old computer which I haven't screwed up for a while.  Thank
> goodness I still have a computer that works on e-mail.  

MTA would just be the Mail Transfer Agent you like.  I use fetchmail,
yours might like something else.

Hmm, the behavior you are describing is the behavior I would expect.
I would guess that may fetchmail is being used to get mail from your pop
host and put into /var/spool/mail/bob.  You then just use mutt, Mozilla,
Sylpheed, or whatever, and point it to that file.  You don't want this?
If not, you would probably tell YAST not to get your mail from a POP
server.  Then you could just use whatever mail agent you like, and make
it download mail as you want/need.

In the Unix philosophy, downloading mail from a pop server, and reading
mail are two separate processes.  You can thus used totally different
tools to the two jobs.  The program the reads the mail is the MUA: Mutt,
Netscape, Mozilla, etc...


Tim
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