Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 20:22:28 GMT From: "Andrew Brown" <dru_brown@hotmail.com> To: grog@lemis.com, chip@wiegand.org, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Netscape, may be off topic Message-ID: <LAW-F226GYdRGy9tCx100002ffb@hotmail.com>
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hey, if you give , i beleive it is called xf mail, a try it should be able to do every thing you need. >From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> >To: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> >CC: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> >Subject: Re: Netscape, may be off topic >Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:38:17 +0930 > >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 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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