Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 23:11:37 -0700 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Message-ID: <199808100612.XAA15000@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199808100335.PAA04328@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> References: <19980810094617.Z11095@freebie.lemis.com> <199808100014.MAA08319@terminator2.xtra.co.nz>
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At 03:35 PM 8/10/98 +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). I went through the same thing. The port for fetchmail doesn't list python as a dependency (it explains somewhere that python is only for the configuration GUI, which isn't essential), but the installation fails if you don't have it. I went in and edited the fetchmail Makefiles (and copied and gzipped a "missing" manpage file) and got it to install for me, simply without the fetchmailconf program. I didn't want to install Tk because I don't have X running on this machine because it's a server of sorts. >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? You don't actually gunzip or untar it. That's handled by the pkg_add mechanism. pkg_add packagefilename.tar.gz >This is why I like compiling a port [when it works]. ditto. --Ludwig Pummer ludwigp@bigfoot.com ludwigp@chipweb.ml.org ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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