From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 20:53:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pioneernet.net (pop3.pioneernet.net [208.240.196.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9483137B526 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:53:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from wiegand.org [208.194.173.26] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.03) id A4A0330F0262; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 21:05:52 -0700 Message-ID: <399B6204.3E5EF3F3@wiegand.org> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:54:44 -0700 From: Chip X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Now: MUA's and MTA's Was: Netscape, may be off topic References: <3998935A.720FC3BB@wiegand.org> <20000815103154.B3999@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3998A282.CB2B194B@wiegand.org> <20000815113359.C3999@wantadilla.lemis.com> <399A20E4.5A1B406E@wiegand.org> <20000816143816.A84889@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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. Greg Lehey wrote: > > > 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. -- Chip W. www.wiegand.org Alternative Operating Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message