From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 9 21:49:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA09640 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 21:49:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA09634 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 21:49:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA09012; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:18:27 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id OAA15118; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:18:03 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980810141803.I11095@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:18:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: receiving mail directly References: <199808100014.MAA08319@terminator2.xtra.co.nz>; <19980810094617.Z11095@freebie.lemis.com> <199808100335.PAA04328@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199808100335.PAA04328@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 03:35:12PM +1200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? Of course, this should happen automatically. How did you go about it? > 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). > This is why I like compiling a port [when it works]. This wouldn't make much difference. That's all the documentation fetchmail appears to have. 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