Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:13:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Message-ID: <19980810161319.L11095@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199808100610.SAA10671@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 06:10:59PM %2B1200 References: <199808100335.PAA04328@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; <19980810141803.I11095@freebie.lemis.com> <199808100610.SAA10671@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>
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On Monday, 10 August 1998 at 18:10:59 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > I believe some of these things have been overtaken by other posts, but > I'll answer just for completeness. > > I think I'm going to try the store-and-forward technique because of issues > particular to my situation. I'll cover that under a separate thread. > > thanks. > > On 10 Aug 98, at 14:18, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Monday, 10 August 1998 at 15:35:12 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: >>> On 10 Aug 98, at 9:46, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> >>>> Other have said "fetchmail", which runs on SMTP. That would be my >>>> preference. >>> >>> Well, first I tried the port. That failed because I didn't have python. >>> So I tried python. That failed because I didn't have Tk (whatever that >>> is). >> >> So why didn't you try porting tk? > > I did actually search for tk. But I wasn't sure which port was actually > tk. There were several with tk in their name. > >> Of course, this should happen automatically. How did you go about it? > > I ftp'd to the ftp site. Did a get. Then a make install. That makes it a bug. Ports should automatically install dependent ports if they're not already installed. >>> So I tried the package. Well, I've got that, untarred it. Now what do >>> I do with it? Where do I find the instructions which tell me what to >>> do? >> >> RTFM. fetchmail(1). > > I guess I wasn't clear enough. I can't *find* the documention. man was > *first* thing I tried. The *last* thing I tried was asking *where* the > documentation is. In between I tried other stuff. The problem was I > can't find no FM. The problem is that the manual is not installed. I > went to the website to look up the fetchmail manual, but it's not there > either. > > I just now checked the pkg directory. There's a man directory there with > fetchmail docs in it. I've cp'd the files over to /usr/share/man/man1 and > now have the manuals online. > > That said, I know where the manual is now. Thanks! :) How did you install the package? Looks like you didn't use pkg_add. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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