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04-02-2009

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I can send but cannot receive mail with unix?

Hi all,

First post!
I have just discovered that I can use unix to send mail to a mail address. I normally use entourage for my mail.
This unix mail is very intriguing to me, but something is not working... I tried the search, but could not find the answer...

This works:
(in terminal)
mail myname@mycompany.be
subject: test
test
ctrl-d

That arrive fine in entourage, but the sender is myname@somethingstrange-computer.local

This does not work:
(in entourage)
send mail to myname@somethingstrange-computer.local

This works:
(in terminal)
mail myname@somethingstrange-computer.local
subject: test
test
ctrl-d

That arrives fine in terminal.

Is there any possibility to send mail from any mail address to the unix mail? How can I determine the correct mail address for the unix mail? All myname@mycompany.be go to entourage and myname@somethingstrange-computer.local doesn't seem to work...

Or am I missing something?

All help is appreciated.

bjorn

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from

from(1B)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands						  from(1B)

NAME

       from - display the sender and date of newly-arrived mail messages

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/from [-s sender] [username]

DESCRIPTION

       The  from utility prints out the mail header lines in your mailbox file to show you who your mail is from. If  username is specified, user-
       name's mailbox is examined instead of your own.

OPTIONS

       The following option is supported:

       -s sender       Only display headers for mail sent by  sender.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of from when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

FILES

       /var/mail/*

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWscpu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       biff(1B), mail(1B), attributes(5), largefile(5)

SunOS 5.10							    28 Jan 2004 							  from(1B)