From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 18 1:29:12 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 36CED37B401 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 01:29:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 194BA43E4A for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 01:29:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1043314144.dcb57b@mired.org) Received: (qmail 67575 invoked from network); 18 Jan 2003 09:29:04 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 18 Jan 2003 09:29:04 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15913.7775.157128.271738@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 03:29:03 -0600 To: "Gary Schenk" Cc: Subject: Re: newbie mail help In-Reply-To: <002b01c2beba$c1d2b000$6501a8c0@socal.rr.com> References: <3E244093.3060706@potentialtech.com> <20030117021944.GC11624@gothmog.gr> <002b01c2beba$c1d2b000$6501a8c0@socal.rr.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" 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\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) 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 In <002b01c2beba$c1d2b000$6501a8c0@socal.rr.com>, Gary Schenk typed: > I've been installing FreeBSD on my home desktop. A little each day I spend > configuring. I've worked out most things with books and man pages. I am > connected to the internet by cable modem. Links worked perfectly right away. > Where I am failing is setting up my email. I am not trying to be a mail > server, just get and send mail through my ISP. The documentation seems to be > geared to mail servers. This is really confusing me. Can someone point me in > the right direction for help on email? Just a nudge in the right direction > would be most helpful. You're right - most of the documentation is geared towards setting up a server. That's because that's the difficult part, and setting up as just a client depends on which of the many clients you've chosen. Basically, what you need to do is choose a client, and then follow the directions on configuring it. That should do the trick. If you like OE, then possibly you want to use Netscape Communicator or Mozilla as a client. Install those from the ports, then use the preferences menus to enter your ISP's host names for the SMTP and POP servers. If you want a command-line client, mutt and pine are popular and available in the ports. There are also other GUI clients available in the ports; look in /usr/ports/mail to see what's there. Finally, I use VM, which is a mail program that runs inside of Emacs. If you use emacs, you might want to give it a look. > I apologize for posting with OE. No need to apologies - the mail came through nicely formatted, as plain text only. That's all we ask for. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message