injecting the message to a mail transfer agent (such as sendmail)
on the local machine via SMTP.
- If you have enabled POP support and you want this to be the
- default method of accessing new mail, you will need to change
- the values of the variables "servers", "pophost", "localname",
- and possibly "mmailid".
+ If, instead, all your mail sending and receiving occurs on a
+ remote POP/SMTP server, you will need to look at the values of the
+ variables "localname", "pophost", and "servers":
- a) "servers" defines the server to which you send outgoing SMTP
- traffic.
+ a) "localname" defines the hostname that nmh considers local.
+ If not set, then nmh queries your OS for this value. You will
+ want to change this if you wish your e-mail to appear as if it
+ originated on the POP server.
- b) "pophost" defines the server that runs the POP daemon, and to
- which `inc' and `msgchk' will query for new mail.
+ b) "pophost" defines the server that runs the POP daemon, and to
+ which `inc' and `msgchk' will always query for new mail.
- c) "localname" defines the hostname that nmh considers local.
- If not set, then nmh queries your OS for this value. You may
- want to change this if you wish your e-mail to appear as if it
- originated on the POP server.
+ c) "servers" defines the server to which you send outgoing SMTP
+ traffic.
- d) "mmailid" is checked to see if nmh should do username
- masquerading. If the value of this field is non-zero, then
- nmh will check if the pw_gecos field in the password file
- has the form
+ If you compile with POP support, but don't want to use it exclusively,
+ you can use the `-host' and `-user' options to `inc' and `msgchk'
+ rather than hardcoding pophost in `mts.conf'.
- Full Name <fakeusername>
-
- If the pw_gecos field has this form, then the internal nmh
- routines that find the username and full name of a user will
- return "fakeusername" and "Full Name" respectively. This is
- useful if you wish messages that you send to appear to come
- from the username of your POP account, rather than your username
- on the local machine.
-
- If you compile with POP support, but only want to use it occasionally,
- then you can always use the `-host' and `-user' options to `inc'
- and `msgchk' instead of changing `mts.conf'.
-
- Check the `mh-tailor' man page for a list of all the available
- options for this file.
+ Check the `mh-tailor' man page for a list of all the available options
+ for this file ("masquerade" may be of particular interest).
6) If you have enabled POP support, make sure that `pop3' (or more
precisely the value of the define POPSERVICE in config.h) is defined
in the /etc/services file (or its NIS/NIS+ equivalent) on the client
machine. It should be something equivalent to "110/tcp". This might
- have already been done when the pop daemon was installed.
+ have already been done when the POP daemon was installed.
7) Edit the file `mhn.defaults' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory).
This file contains the default profile entries for the nmh command
want to re-run this script later if you install new programs to
display content. An example of this is:
- cd support/general
- ./mhn.defaults.sh /usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/ucb > mhn.defaults
+ % cd support/general
+ % ./mhn.defaults.sh /usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/ucb > mhn.defaults
and then move `mhn.defaults' into the nmh `etc' directory.
Enable client-side support for pop.
--with-krb4=PREFIX
- Specify the location of Kerberos V4 for KPOP support. You will
- also need to specify the option `--enable-nmh-pop'. After running
- configure, you will probably need to change the POPSERVICE define
- in config.h. See the comments inside config.h for details.
+ Specify the location of Kerberos V4 for KPOP support. You will also need to
+ specify the option `--enable-nmh-pop'. After running configure, you will
+ need to change the POPSERVICE #define in config.h if you want to use KPOP
+ exclusively (rather than being able to switch between KPOP and normal POP3).
+ See the comments inside config.h for details.
--with-hesiod=PREFIX
Specify the location of Hesiod.
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