tlug: So close to e-mail i can almost taste it.

[Dave Gutteridge <dave@example.com>]

JS Bennet wrote:
> I don't know if you've seen
>http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Mail-HOWTO.html 

This site is the bomb! Lotsa clear instructions on lotsa stuff.
Of course, it ain't always daisies. I'm trying to get through the how to,
and it's not going quite as expected. I'll show you what the page said, and
then my experience trying to follow along, and tell me where i broke with
reality.
This should also be good insight into how a newbie views Linux... and
perhaps the world.

The web page said:
	To check your mail server has pop, try : 
     		$ telnet mailhost 110
	If it works, you will get something like "OK Pop server (...) starting" :
type "quit" !

So then i went to my prompt and had the following conversation:
	$ telnet localhost 110
	Trying 127.0.0.1...
	Connected to localhost.
	Escape character is '^]'.
	+OK DPOP Version 2.2i. <387.910859381@example.com>
	quit
	+OK bye
	Connection closed by foreign host.

Here I may already have assumed too much. My POP server didn't say
"starting..." as it did in the example. So maybe it's not all good. But i
pressed on anyways to the next step in the 'how to'.

The web page said:
	To install a ssh crypted "channel", first test your mail server typing : 
		$ ssh mailhost date

So then the following happened with my machine:
	$ ssh mailhost date
	bash: ssh: command not found
	$ man ssh
	No manual entry for ssh
	$ man mailhost
	No manual entry for mailhost
	(Here it occured to me that i had checked the internet for information on
POP, but maybe the man pages would have someting specific to this machine...)
	$ man ipop
	No manual entry for ipop
	$ man pop
	No manual entry for pop
	(Nope...)

At this point i ran out of questions for the machine.
Can someone steer me back on course?


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