From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 22 22: 1:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9394437B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:01:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E176043F1E for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:01:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 0C8BB4FCA5; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:41:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 039AF4A0F; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:41:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:41:02 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Gary Schenk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie mail help In-Reply-To: <003901c2c298$f4a27420$6501a8c0@socal.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Gary Schenk wrote: > > Mike has suggested that Pine does not need fetchmail. That makes sense. In > the Pine man pages it says c-client is used to access mail severs. I cannot > find help for c-client. Nor do I find a place to tell Pine about my ISP's > pop3 server. In chapter 25 of FreeBSD Unleashed it states that fetchmail is > needed for mutt and Pine. > > I chose to install Pine because I believed it to be a beginner's program. I > tried to setup Balsa, and no matter what I place in the settings preferences > I can't get it to work either. It seems a simple problem. I have mail on my > ISP's pop3 server. I want to retrieve it and read it. "Get this there and > bring it here". It seems simple, but how do I tell FreeBSD to do this? > > This is incredibly frustrating. Not just for me, I've gotten email from > another beginner who can't get his mail to work either. Perhaps this is a > question for the documentation project? > > Gary > I've used lots of email clients and Pine is my favorite. However, I had the same problem you are. First I solved it by setting up postfix to do it for me (fix the return address). Then I found I could specify the headers in the pine configuration. Go to the setup section of pine (while it's running) and setup up headers as I did: customized-hdrs = Reply-To: John Bleichert From: John Bleichert That should clear it up. As I said earlier in this email chain, to just plain old 'get going' with email in Unix it's best to use e.g. Netscape or Mozilla mail or kmail as they work like the usual email clients. Most other Unix clients rely on the system mail to function properly which can make them tuff to set up if say your username on the box doesnt match that at your ISP. Hope that helps. I don't know balsa, never used it, but in my first several years in Linux/BSD I clung to my Netscape email like a liferaft :) JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message