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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers I can send but cannot receive mail with unix? Post 302307344 by otheus on Wednesday 15th of April 2009 06:37:22 AM

04-15-2009

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Where to begin??

First, any email system must know how to find a computer named "somethingstrange-computer.local". Since this isn't an official DNS name, it might be a little confused. If the UNIX computer you are using is named "somethingstrange-computer.local" and you send it to this address, it generally has no problem figuring out that you simply want to send it to the local user "myname". However, another computer won't know how to contact this computer. So you can try emailing to your computer's fixed IP address, if it has one: myname@10.1.1.2 or if not, get a service called "dynamic DNS" so that your computer's IP address is always associated with a domain name, and simply mail to myname@dynamic-dns-service.net (for instance).

Note: it might still not be that easy; your UNIX computer might have a built in firewall or the email "service" might not be configured to receive external emails.

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WWW::Topica::Mail(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    WWW::Topica::Mail(3pm)

NAME

       WWW::Topica::Mail - parse a single Topica mailing list mail

SYNOPSIS

	   my $index = WWW::Topic::Index->new($index_html);

	   foreach my $mess_id ($index->message_ids) {
	       # the mail has some information and also provides a link to the reply ...
	       my $mail  = WWW::Topica::Mail->new($topica->fetch_mail($mess_id), $mess_id);
	       # which has other information (like the un-htmled mail and the email address) ...
	       my $reply = WWW::Topica::Reply->new($topica->fetch_reply($mail->id, $mail->eto), $mail->id, $mail->eto);
	   }

	   print "Next offset is ".$index->next."
";
	   print "Previous offset is ".$index->prev."
";

DESCRIPTION

       Used to parse a single message page from Topica.com's mailing list indexes.

       Message pages have the subject and the date and time of the mail being sent as well as a full name of each sender.

METHODS

   new <page html> <id>
       Takes the page html and the message-id and parses the html.

   parse <html>
       Parse the html to get message ids and next & prev offsets.

   id
       Get the id of this mail

   eto
       Get the eto of the next reply we need to get

   date
       Get the date of this mail

   subject
       The subject of the mail

   from
       Get the name of the person it was from

   body
       Get the body of the mail.

AUTHOR

       Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2004, Simon Wistow

perl v5.10.1							    2006-01-03						    WWW::Topica::Mail(3pm)