From: NoEMail@home.org   
      
   Bit Twister  wrote:   
   > On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 00:29:07 -0000 (UTC), root wrote:   
   >>   
   >> FIXED fetchmail. Many thanks for that help, but mailx still does   
   >> not work.   
   >   
   > As I misunderstand it I thought mailx just reads your local system mail   
   > box file and has nothing to do with outside the system mail.   
      
   For me .mailrc configures my outgoing mail.   
   fetchmail works for incoming mail.   
      
   >   
   > Currently fetchmail sucks down any email and automagically sends to   
   > my local username account mail and will be in /var/mail/local_user_login_here   
      
   Yes, that is what happens for me.   
      
   > .   
   > easy enough to test for local mail for me by doing a   
   >    mail -s "local testshot" $LOGNAME < /dev/null   
   >    /var/mail/will have the testshot message and mail   
   >   
   > I run Mageia Release 8 amd mailx is linked to mail   
   > $ ls -l /usr/bin/mailx   
   > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 13  2020 /usr/bin/mailx -> ../../bin/mail   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > Cannot help there I have no ~/.mailrc   
   > going to guess the set mta command would be used to get user mail from   
   > another system.   
   >   
   > And Yes. any "insecure" app will have to provide you gamial id and 16 digit   
   > application gmail password to access its mail server.   
      
   Chris Vine said the one password worked for fetchmail,postfix,and mailx.   
   I need a peek at the correct line in his .mailrc.   
      
   Thanks for responding BT.   
      
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