From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 15 22: 8:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F1737C519 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 22:08:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA94345; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:38:17 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:38:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Chip Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Netscape, may be off topic Message-ID: <20000816143816.A84889@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3998935A.720FC3BB@wiegand.org> <20000815103154.B3999@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3998A282.CB2B194B@wiegand.org> <20000815113359.C3999@wantadilla.lemis.com> <399A20E4.5A1B406E@wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <399A20E4.5A1B406E@wiegand.org>; from chip@wiegand.org on Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:04:36PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 15 August 2000 at 22:04:36 -0700, Chip wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> differant email program. Any suggestions? >> >> Anything except Netscape. Look at the mess it made of your message. >> I assume you didn't really intend it to look like this. I have a >> number of suggestions at http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html. > > I read your web page about mail and found it very > enlightening. Thankyou. I have installed mutt and see that I now > need another app to download my email from the server (my isp's mail > server). I have tried half a dozen differant apps from the ports and > either they are not the right app for the job or they crashed > continually. So then I got out your book and read the chapter on > mail, which I should've done long ago, and am ready to use sendmail, > since it is already running by default. Only problem is I can't find > the sendmail.cf file. I used the find command and it didn't find it > either. It did find sendmail, just not sendmail.cf. So I guess there > is some more configuring I need to do? You should have a sendmail.cf in /etc/mail. But that won't download mail from a POP or IMAP server. I think mutt might do this itself, though I'm not sure, but the canonical application at the moment is fetchmail. And yes, I've heard of bugs in it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message