Re: How to find which pop3 server I am connecting to

From: Kevin Collins (spamtotrash_at_toomuchfiction.com)
Date: 05/22/04 

Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 22:05:07 GMT

In article <85b5177a.0405201303.3367204b@posting.google.com>, Junchi Tang
wrote:
> If I use mail, or mailx in HP-UX, it will retrieve my email messages.
>
> How could I find out which pop3 server I am connecting to? I checked
> the box I am on, it does not open the port 110, from my understanding,
> the mail utilities is connecting to some other server to retrieve the
> email.

The mail and mailx commands send and read mail, they do not receive it. They
access mail from a mailbox directory or file. The mail is delivered to the
mailbox by an MTA (Mail Transport Agent), typically sendmail on HP-UX.

Kevin

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