From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 24 18: 9: 8 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 95F7E37B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:09:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from orngca-mls02.socal.rr.com (orngca-mls02.socal.rr.com [66.75.160.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2454C43F13 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:09:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gwschenk@socal.rr.com) Received: from bonehead.socal.rr.com (sc-24-165-65-83.socal.rr.com [24.165.65.83]) by orngca-mls02.socal.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0OKeUn21654 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:40:38 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Gary Schenk Reply-To: gwschenk@socal.rr.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newbie mail help Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:42:49 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <002901c2c3e5$008a83c0$6501a8c0@socal.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <002901c2c3e5$008a83c0$6501a8c0@socal.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200301241242.49239.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> 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 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Bleichert" > To: "Gary Schenk" > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:41 PM > Subject: Re: newbie mail help > > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Gary Schenk wrote: > > > > 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 > From: John Bleichert > > 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