Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:18:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Message-ID: <19980810141803.I11095@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199808100335.PAA04328@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 03:35:12PM %2B1200 References: <199808100014.MAA08319@terminator2.xtra.co.nz>; <19980810094617.Z11095@freebie.lemis.com> <199808100335.PAA04328@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>
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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
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