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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] mail problems..
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:11:14 +0530."
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:24:09 -0400
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> upas/fs -f /pop/pop.gmx.net/my_user_name
>
> The first time I did that, I was asked for my password. It accepted it
> and the I got the term% prompt again.
>
> When I executed 'mail' from acme, it said that I had 0 messages. I
> know for a fact that there were messages on the server, why were they
> not downloaded?

It sounds like acme was running in a different namespace and thus didn't
see the /mail/fs that was being presented by upas/fs talking to the POP3
server.  Did you run acme in the same window you ran upas/fs in?

> Also, I am confused about how to send mail using an authenticated smtp
> server. What do the different rewrite files do? I have edited my
> rewrite.gateway file to point to my smtp server (mail.gmx.net). But
> how do I handle authentication? I have also added a 'From' header file
> in my /mail/box/user_name/headers file. Will this 'From' header be
> used for every email I send from my account?

Well, you should move rewrite.gateway to rewrite.  Authentication is
handled using smtp; change /mail/lib/remotemail such that, when it
invokes smtp, it supplies the ``-a'' and ``-u <your_user_name>''
options.  Note that authentication is a little picky in that the SMTP
server must support TLS for it to work.  The client won't authenticate
by sending a password over an unencrypted connection.  Make sure your
password on the mailserver is in a factotum that smtp can see (if
you're just using a standalone machine, that's your normal factotum).
Something like:
echo 'key proto=pass service=smtp server=''your.mail.server'' !password=''your_password''' >> /mnt/factotum/ctl
(You may not need to quote the mailserver name, nor the password, but
it won't hurt anything).

	- Dan C.