sendmail/courier setup, incompatibility with pine

[Max Blanco]

Hi Fraser/All,

We're getting closer... thanks to Fraser... see below.

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Fraser Campbell wrote:

> Where does it go?
> 
> Try:
> 
>   echo test | mail max
> 
> That should send an email to the user max on your machine.  Check:

OK, I had courier installed, not sendmail.  Sendmail was a leftove binary, 
I think.  Anyhow, your test worked.  It sets up a file called "~/Maildir"
and dumps the text in there, but I did a "pine -F Maildir" and the mail 
was not in a pine-readable format.  

> - does the mail command complain (then sendmail is probably very 
screwed up)
> - check the maillog (tail -f /var/log/mail.info), what does it say?

I think all's well, except for the "Maildir" incompatibility with pine.

Now if only I could fix that...

> No ideas without more information.  FWIW I much prefer postfix and the debian 
> postfix package offers some pretty easy to follow dialogs when you install it 
> that should get it working just fine.  Still I'd rather see you figure out 
> the issue first since it may not be related to sendmail at all.

Yeah, I'm too close with my setup as it is, but 2-3 more days of banging 
my head against a wall, and I'll be trying postfix.

cheers,
max.

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