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Old 05-09-2007
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How to start a mailx server ?
I have a problem with my unix server. Can anyone please teach me how to start the mailx running... .
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What exactly is the problem ? Any errors ? Mailx is utility for sending and receiving messages, it is started along with the respective MTA on the server. Again, my favorite question : what is the OS and what is the MTA ?
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The OS is solaris 8 and what u mean by MTA ? Anyway there is no sendmail daemon running.
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MTA is "mail transfer agent". Most of us use sendmail as our MTA but there are others. mailx is not a server. And I disagree with the statement "it is started along with the respective MTA on the server". mailx is a UA (user agent). It is started by the user when the user decides to read or send mail. There are other UA's around such as elm or pine or mh. A user can decide which UA to use and lots of users chose something other than mailx.
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since, it is started by the user, then how to start it ?

when i type mailx there is nothing.... *puzzled*
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does your user have the necessary rights.
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i have the root password....
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