NewBie Ques
 

HI
i have couple of questions,
ok, first one first,
when i use mail command in command line, i doesnt seem to be sending any email
i use "mail some@hotmail.com", then after i enter content i press Ctrl D,. i just wondering i have to set up my smtp and pop for that mail command, i cant find any info how to setup in man pages.
second one is
i dont want explorer window opened every time i insert CD, is there any where i can turn off auto run CD?
Thanks heap in advance

uhm, things to go off about on your question:
1) there is not explorer and calling it that will get you hung by your balls.
2) e-mail try starting with evolution in the gui mode, newb friendly.
3) redhat automatically mounts cd's, as for popping them up not sure I hate redhat (not critisising you for using it though)

yep i know i can use gui for some stuff, i am not new to gui , i can use gui quite well in redhat. but after i knew about commandline power, i am trying to force myself to use it. so can you help?
well, i dont know how they call the square frame come out when you click on any folder :). i dont want that frame window opened when i insert CD.
Thanks

it is eather nautilus konquere (I do not know kde so that may not be it) or there are a few others, I use none, any directory stuff I do from commandline. also it is good to do a lot from command line, very good, but you shoudl still be ina gui while doing it using xterm or my favorite E-term (part of www.enlightenment.org) I think enlightenment is the best for those that want terminal, there are redhat packages available for it to. (I recommend compiling it for experiance though) basically you have a background, no desktop icons, no apparent menu's, no clutter, to pull up a menu you click on the desktop and boom a menu you make ina text file pops-up and you select from a list eather terminal or a gui application you need. (you can also access gnome and kde menus frm this menu)

The mail command looks for a mail server on the local machine. If your using your ISP's mail it won't work. I don't know of any command-line email software that will work but you might try searching on freshmeat.net

I think there is a seperate program that will check your mail from the server and then you can read it from a command-line program such as mail or pine. If I can find out what it is I will let you know.

You can use pine to receive and send mail from the command line, but you have to configure pine so that it accpets the address.

I have not done it, but I have known people who have used pine as their email client.

thanks guys,
now i can send email from pine but cant receive yet, i need to set pop to receive it , but i dont know where to set, still figuring out,
to run mail server, i do need to register with isp and have MX record and stuff, dont i?

You can send mail from your command line (either mail or mailx), you just need to set your mailhost up in your /etc/hosts files.

I believe the syntax is as follows, but look it up to be sure.

How do you set it up to recieve your ISP's mail so you can receive it in pine?

It's been awhile (6 years) since I used pine, but I believe there is a letter you can press at the first screen you get to, that will be options. I seem to remember setting it in there, but I may be mistaken.

Of course when I was using pine, I was telnet'd in to the actual mail server, so I may have just been reading the file from /var/mail.