hi i am using sendmail with fetchmail with procmail and pine......for my mail system on my linux box. 1.> Inspired by Philip's SMTP howto....i tried the following: i telnetted the port 25 on localhost......and tried to mail a message to my login....that's "abhije" now,i understand that the sendmail daemon identifies me as abhije@localhost(when i telnet the port 25)-- i get "IDENT:abhije@localhost.localdomain" as part of the response to HELO. when i say...... MAIL FROM:someone@some.other.domain ....it responds that the sender's address should resolve.....what does that mean??? i thought because it sends mail ......it should accept all sender addresses!!! At the same time.....if i say MAIL FROM:some_other_login_on_my_linuxbox@localhost the mail is sent....even if "some_other_login_on_my_linuxbox" knows nothing about it!!! my argument is that if it knows that i am abhije@localhost...and hence does not accept someone@some.other.domain....how does it accept mail from some_other_login??? i am new to sendmail..and smtp..could somebody help???? i know i could use something less scarier than sendmail.....but i need to know what's happening here......
2.> Also is there some other mail client that has the address book facility???....i just need a break from pine.....
3.>I also have a yahoo inbox.....but the yahoo server doesn't flush the mail when polled!!!! could somebody explain that???? (yes..i have registered for pop3 access)
bye abhijeet