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Re: [fetchmail] cant send email

2002-07-02 02:27:42
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:15:12 +0800
"Toto Gamez" <egamez(_at_)bonheur(_dot_)com(_dot_)ph> waffled thusly:

hi 
Im new to Linux and try to install fetchmail and installed it, my
problem I successfully retrieved my email using Outlook Express but
when I tried to send an email. is fetchamil also capable of doing this
if yes how would i configure it to send an email.

Hi,

Fetchmail isn't capable of sending mail - it's a mail retrieval tool
only.
If your mail program can't talk to an SMTP server directly (or you
prefer
your mail program to call a "sendmail"-style program) you'll need to
install
a mail server program such as Sendmail, Postfix, Exim or qmail on your
Linux box.

Your Linux distribution will have one as part of the package/sources set
(Sendmail, Postfix
or Exim on most)

Thanks,
Toto

Michael.

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