I’ve recently upgraded my home PC from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. One of the big benefits (apart from getting the very latest Firefox and Thunderbird packages) is that F9 features KDE 4, the latest version of the KDE desktop window manager.
Fedora 9
To upgrade, I followed the excellent instructions at http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/f9-tips.php. The key point is [...]
Today I was in the unfortunate position of not being able to use Thunderbird to read my email. I recently installed the Lightning calendar addon together with the Provider for Google Calendar addon. What’s supposed to happen is the calendar within Thunderbird (provided by the Lightning addon) is automatically updated from (and updates) my Google [...]
Talking directly to sendmail.
You can use telnet to talk directly to sendmail. This allows you to create mail from a different account. Sendmail uses port 25 by default.
$ telnet your.mailserver.address.com 25
You should get an introductory message from sendmail.
> helo your.domain.com
Sendmail responds with address details and ‘pleased to meet you’
> mail from: person@address.mail.is.from.com
Sendmail should echo back [...]