Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:40:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Now: MUA's and MTA's Was: Netscape, may be off topic Message-ID: <14748.27120.778011.473643@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <58783330@toto.iv>
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Chip writes: > Thanks for all the responses, certainly more than I had expected. > I installed mutt and fetchmail. When I ran ./fetchmailconf I got > the following error messages - > chip# ./fetchmailconf > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/usr/local/libexec/fetchmailconf.bin:, line 9, in ? > from Tkinter import * > File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 8, in ? > import _tkinter # If this fails your Python may not be configured > for Tk > ImportError: No module named _tkinter > chip# > I had to install Tk in order to get this far, but here I am. This is quite a > challenge > setting up something to actually download my mail from a public Check to see if you've got a /usr/local/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so If so, then your python is misconfigured. If not, then you might need to deinstall, clean, make and install python again (I vaguely recall something about the python port only building the _tkinter module if you had tk installed). Note that you only need python & tkinter to run the GUI configuration tool. You can configure fetchmail by hand and use it without python or tkinter. > mail server. I wonder if it would be worth my time to set up a mail > server of my own and not even use my isp anymore. I'm doing that > with a web server. If you've got a fixed IP address, that makes sense. You need to set up an SMTP server to get the most from fetchmail anyway; might as well let others talk to it if you've got the fixed address. qmail & postfix are in the ports collection, and are easier to configure than sendmail, which is installed with the base system. Check with your ISP to see about setting up MX records so that if you're down and they aren't, mail will go to one of their hosts waiting for delivery. That way you know how long you can leave your system down before mail starts bouncing. <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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