Le mail local sous linux
Linux hérite pour beaucoup des fonctionalités de Unix. Un des aspects particulier de cet héritage est la gestion du mail.
J'ai tranféré mon blog vers la KB, ici : http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/KB/AdminMailLocal Blog Home
LeMailLocalSousLinux
Version 1.68 last modified by yoho on 06/11/2006 at 09:49
Version 1.68 last modified by yoho on 06/11/2006 at 09:49
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- type: Movemail
- account name: Local (my choice)
- server name: local host (automatically set by Thunderbird)
- user name: harms (automatically set by Thunderbird
- other settings: your choice, similar to your other accounts
It works!"Local mail", postfix configuration for channeling local mail for root to an effectively configured user Each user has a "Local" mailbox, a file at /var/spool/mail/
Make sure that mail for root arrives in the local mailbox of a real user (note: such mail is sent, for instance, when certain error messages are issued) Edit your /etc/postfix/aliases file, make sure that the line root: postfix is replaced by a line root:
Make mail deposited in your local mailbox be picked up by kmail or by Thunderbird. kmail Screenshot more or less self-explaining: an account "local" is created, select as its locking method "FCNTL" or "Aucun" (I guess - I do not use kmail - in English that will be "None") - none is OK if you only expect to receive local mail very occasionally. FCNTL uses file locking, but the access rights to /var/spool/mail need to grant write access to everybody (dangerous) - the same problem as with Thunderbird. Discussion (comments)
The file /etc/postfix/main.cf must contain the lines inet interfac = localhost mynetworks_style =