From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 9 20:36:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04100 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 20:36:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA04090 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 20:36:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id PAA04328; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:35:19 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808100335.PAA04328@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Greg Lehey Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:35:12 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980810094617.Z11095@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199808100014.MAA08319@terminator2.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 12:14:49PM +1200 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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? This is why I like compiling a port [when it works]. -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message