From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 18:49: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.129.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F99537B7FB for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 18:49:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom0-199.telepath.com [216.14.0.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D49D6E3BA2 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:42:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 50573 invoked by uid 100); 17 Aug 2000 22:40:48 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14748.27120.778011.473643@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:40:48 -0500 (CDT) To: Chip Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Now: MUA's and MTA's Was: Netscape, may be off topic In-Reply-To: <58783330@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chip writes: > 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 Check to see if you've got a /usr/local/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload/_tkinter.so If so, then your python is misconfigured. If not, then you might need to deinstall, clean, make and install python again (I vaguely recall something about the python port only building the _tkinter module if you had tk installed). Note that you only need python & tkinter to run the GUI configuration tool. You can configure fetchmail by hand and use it without python or tkinter. > 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. If you've got a fixed IP address, that makes sense. You need to set up an SMTP server to get the most from fetchmail anyway; might as well let others talk to it if you've got the fixed address. qmail & postfix are in the ports collection, and are easier to configure than sendmail, which is installed with the base system. Check with your ISP to see about setting up MX records so that if you're down and they aren't, mail will go to one of their hosts waiting for delivery. That way you know how long you can leave your system down before mail starts bouncing.