Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:42:49 -0800 From: Gary Schenk <gwschenk@socal.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newbie mail help Message-ID: <200301241242.49239.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <002901c2c3e5$008a83c0$6501a8c0@socal.rr.com> References: <002901c2c3e5$008a83c0$6501a8c0@socal.rr.com>
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> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Bleichert" <syborg@stny.rr.com> > To: "Gary Schenk" <gwschenk@socal.rr.com> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:41 PM > Subject: Re: newbie mail help > > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Gary Schenk wrote: > > <major snippage> > > I've used lots of email clients and Pine is my favorite. However, I ha= d > the same problem you are. First I solved it by setting up postfix to d= o > 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 (wh= ile > it's running) and setup up headers as I did: > > customized-hdrs =3D Reply-To: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.= com> > From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> > > That should clear it up. As I said earlier in this email chain, to jus= t > plain old 'get going' with email in Unix it's best to use e.g. Netscap= e > or Mozilla mail or kmail as they work like the usual email clients. Mo= st > 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 liferaf= t > :) > > JB > > # John Bleichert > # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg OK, I stopped being so mule-headed and when doing a fresh install, setup = KDE=20 this time. As John suggested (twice!) kmail is working great. Setting it = up=20 was quick and easy. No sendmail needed or fetchmail. This is great. Thank= s to=20 all in the group for helping.=20 @^_^@ <-- one happy former Outlook Express user I will try to setup Pine for mail with postfix at sometime. Anyone have any suggestions for a newsreader for KDE? Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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