I installed sendmail and pine and I could send emails to other people succesffly. However no matter what I try I cannot receive other people's email. The only messages sitting in my pine inbox are system notifications sent to root@knoppix.
Then I think the problem is that my mail is handled by someone else.
root@node02# host cluster.msu.com cluster.msu.com has address 142.57.218.103 cluster.msu.com mail is handled by 10 pobox.msu.com.
I had no idea that pobox.msu.com was handling my mail, I didn't even know it existed . I couldn't ssh onto pobox.msu.com of course since I don't have password/account there. How to receive email on my own machine that is cluster.msu.com?
Have your DNS administrator update (or remove) the MX record for cluster.msu.com. Mail will try to route to the A record if no MX record exists.
However, this will only work for mail sent to somebody@cluster.msu.com. If you want to receive mail for yourname@msu.com (for example) you'll need to POP/IMAP off your central mailserver, have your mail administrator configure a forward or virtusertable (to route yourname@msa.com to yourname@cluster.msa.com) or use fetchmail or similar.
thanks a lot, so there is no other way? In my school it takes $1000 to get a IP address from the bureaucracy of tech service. I don't want to contact tech service if there is a work around.