Uhh...am I stoopid?

[Brian Cavagnolo <bc...@yahoo.com>]

I'm pretty new to mail server stuff.  The mail
veterans around me suggested JAMES as opposed to
sendmail not because they have used JAMES, but because
they have used sendmail:)  Anyway, I installed and
configured according to the documentation and nothing
seems to be crashing but I don't know how to view
mail!

I used the remote manager to add a user who has a
system account too.  I tried to send mail to this user
from a remote account.  There doesn't seem to be any
spool file or anything in the james working directory.
 Based on the documentation, I sort of expected a file
to get written to something like .../var/spool/mail. 
I was hoping that simple text clients like pine would
magically find the mail.  No such luck.  Can somebody
offer a breif tutorial on how to get a mail client to
talk to james?  Are system accounts somehow associated
with james accounts?

Perhaps the configuration documentation for JAMES
should have a final test section which involves
sending a test message from a remote account to the
newly configured service and viewing that message.

Thanks,
Brian

__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now
http://companion.yahoo.com/

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscribe@james.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-help@james.apache.org

Re: Uhh...am I stoopid?

[Brian Austin <br...@sasco.com.au>]

you must be if I can help ;^)

use a pop mail client like outlook express

pop server name is the james ip address, you know the username and password
i hope.

regards

Brian.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Cavagnolo" <bc...@yahoo.com>
To: <se...@james.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:39 PM
Subject: Uhh...am I stoopid?


> I'm pretty new to mail server stuff.  The mail
> veterans around me suggested JAMES as opposed to
> sendmail not because they have used JAMES, but because
> they have used sendmail:)  Anyway, I installed and
> configured according to the documentation and nothing
> seems to be crashing but I don't know how to view
> mail!
>
> I used the remote manager to add a user who has a
> system account too.  I tried to send mail to this user
> from a remote account.  There doesn't seem to be any
> spool file or anything in the james working directory.
>  Based on the documentation, I sort of expected a file
> to get written to something like .../var/spool/mail.
> I was hoping that simple text clients like pine would
> magically find the mail.  No such luck.  Can somebody
> offer a breif tutorial on how to get a mail client to
> talk to james?  Are system accounts somehow associated
> with james accounts?
>
> Perhaps the configuration documentation for JAMES
> should have a final test section which involves
> sending a test message from a remote account to the
> newly configured service and viewing that message.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now
> http://companion.yahoo.com/
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscribe@james.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-help@james.apache.org
>
>




---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscribe@james.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-help@james.apache.org

Re: Uhh...am I stoopid?

[Herr Vinny <co...@comcast.net>]

Yes, I use MS Outlook Express to grab mail off James.

When configuring, make sure you put the email address as
[username]@localhost, if you haven't assigned a domain name to James. For
incoming and outgoing servers, the server url is just localhost, and tell
express that the incoming mail server is POP3.

-Vinny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Cavagnolo" <bc...@yahoo.com>
To: <se...@james.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 9:39 PM
Subject: Uhh...am I stoopid?


> I'm pretty new to mail server stuff.  The mail
> veterans around me suggested JAMES as opposed to
> sendmail not because they have used JAMES, but because
> they have used sendmail:)  Anyway, I installed and
> configured according to the documentation and nothing
> seems to be crashing but I don't know how to view
> mail!
>
> I used the remote manager to add a user who has a
> system account too.  I tried to send mail to this user
> from a remote account.  There doesn't seem to be any
> spool file or anything in the james working directory.
>  Based on the documentation, I sort of expected a file
> to get written to something like .../var/spool/mail.
> I was hoping that simple text clients like pine would
> magically find the mail.


---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscribe@james.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-help@james.apache.org