4. Mail&News

A little mail & news implementation.

4.1 Mail

• Set a SMTP capable IP in 'smarthost' (ask your isp)
• Set your hostname in 'hostname' (some isp require it, others don't bother)
• Write messages in the stack as the following example suggest:

      4: "fromadr@email"
      3: "toadr@email"
      2: "The subject"
      1: "The body of the letter"
  

  and launch 'sendmail'. The message is now in Unsent.
• To flush messages, launch 'sendmailq'

  ( If some error happen, you should get a warning during the post, and the whole error message + the body of the message are send to you in Inbox (as usual) )

• Set POP3 servers in 'fetchmailrc' as the following example suggests:

    { { "pop.mail.fr" { { "mum"  "herpass" 1 1 } { "dad" "hispass" 0 1 } ... } }
      { "pop.isp.uk"  { { "toto" "hispass" 1 0 }                         ... } }
      ...
    }
    where 1 1 is respectively for "delete mails after reading"
                              and "fetch only unread mails"
      and 0 0 would be            "keep them on server after reading"
                              and "fetch all mails"
  

  and launch 'fetchmail'

  NB: It is very important to keep messages on the server when you also read them from another machine.

  You can now read them in 'Inbox'

4.2 News

• Set a NNTP capable IP in 'newshost' (ask your isp)
• Put posts in 'Unposted' as the following suggests:

    { "From: you@yourhost.com
    Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
    Subject: nothing interesting
  
    hello
  
    Best Regards" ... }
  

• And launch 'POST' to post unposted posts (!)

Beware: Don't let a single . on its own line in any message, it would break it.