Sendmail question.

[Andrew Moore]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:42:42PM -0500, ismgr wrote:
> So, when you receive mail via Sendmail to your machine and the machine 
> happens to be your local machine, can you setup the machine to read the 
> mail without using a POP server?

yep. Typically, if sendmail is configured for local delivery,
it puts your mail in /var/spool/mail/<username>. Most MUAs 
(like mutt, pine, and others) read from there just fine.
Sendmail usually looks into /etc/mail/sendmail.cw or 
/etc/mail/local-host-names to see what domains it does 
local delivery on.

Sometimes, people like to have their mail delievered into
a directory in their $HOME. That's usually what they're
talking about when they talk about "Maildir". Each message
is its own file in your $HOME/Mail instead of a big
mbox in the /var/spool/mail. Mail clients can read that
stuff, too.

Hope it helps.

-Andy