topic Re: Changing email settings in Operating System - HP-UX

Changing email settings

Diadina Cotte — Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:49:16 GMT

Hello All

I need to change the email settings. How do i do that on a HP-UX 10.20?? also how do i look for the inbox and retrieve the email.

thanx!

Re: Changing email settings

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:52:57 GMT

It would help to know which email settings you are talking about. Sendmail could have hundreds. The default location for the inboxes is /var/mail. Sendmail is generally configured in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf but you are going to have to be more specific.

Re: Changing email settings

PIYUSH D. PATEL — Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:55:51 GMT

Hi,

Normally it is in /var/mail

Are you using sendmail ???

see man mail
man mailx

Piyush

Re: Changing email settings

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:56:09 GMT

I should add that if you login as a particular user and enter the command 'mail', you should see any mail.

Re: Changing email settings

S.K. Chan — Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:56:56 GMT

If your own email setting the file is in your home directory (.elm/elmrc). Global email config file is in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. Default location of mailbox is /var/mail/ which elm will read from. To retrieve from a different mailbox location run elm with "-f", example ..
$ elm -f /home/mydir/mytempmbox

Re: Changing email settings

PIYUSH D. PATEL — Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:59:57 GMT

Hi,

Issue

# mail -p or -P to read your mails.

Piyush

Re: Changing email settings

Diadina Cotte — Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:02:43 GMT

Yes, the problem is that the mail file is more than 50 mb and I cannot read any mail. Also the server is not sending any mail to the configured addresses. I do need to change the configuration.

You said /etc/mail/sendmail.cf ??

Re: Changing email settings

Diadina Cotte — Thu, 20 Jun 2002 15:03:02 GMT

I need to change the mailserver name... it is wrong and all the mails are bouncing back.