On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Eric Zylstra wrote:

> I've installed imap-uw and it appears to be working with one 
> exception. I can't seem to send mail to the machine.

IMAP is a protocol designed to receive mail, not send it (this is an over
simplification, but accurate enough for this context).

> I can send myself an email and successfully receive it if I send it
> from the machine itself, but when I try sending a message to my
> account on that machine from another, it never goes through and I get
> no failure messages.

Right, because most likely the mail program you're using is directly
running sendmail or some other MTA which can directly access the mailboxes
on your machine.

To send mail from another host to your machine, you'll need to set up some
sort of SMTP daemon (like sendmail).  Check /etc/rc.conf, there are knobs
to fire up sendmail IIRC.

- alex

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