Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:59:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Haavard Vaagstoel <havardjv@gudmund.vgs.no> To: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need a tip - X equiv. of Eudora? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980625124454.283B-100000@arwen.myst.no> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980624191252.00802350@mx.serv.net>
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On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > Your idea is a good one (and intrigues me as well), but I *did* find a > standalone pop client with some similarities to Eudora, so it pretty much > takes care of the issue. On a single-user system like mine, not networked > to any other PC's except via dialup to an ISP, it seems easier and more > expedient to use a single program rather than a daemon to handle Email > (except for system-sent mail, of course... but I can just use 'mail' to > read that). The idea of using a fetchmail daemon that would allow any > number of other programs to manipulate my Email is intriguing, however. While fetchmail, for instance, _may_ be run as a daemon, polling your POP server at specified intervals, it can also be run as a "common program", that is, not as a daemon. You'd only run it once, it'd fetch your mail, and the execution of the program will be over. What do you mean "a standalone pop client with some similarities to Eudora", by the way? In what way is it similar to Eudora? Does it move your mail from the POP server to the local mail system, or does it move it to some specified reader's message base? If you want to make use of the quite versatile standard mail delivery system, I suggest you look into 'fetchmail' (for POP retrieval), 'procmail' (for mail filtering), 'sendmail' (for mail delivery, both local and remote) and the '.forward' file (which specifies what address or program mail shall be forwarded to). > BTW, why the quotes on 'under X?' Aren't I running "under" a particular > visual environment when X is running? How would you have put it, if 'under > X' doesn't sound right to you? Inquiring newbies want to know. I put the quotes there because of this -- it is most certainly possible to run a POP client (or, for that sake, any non-graphical program) in a xterm window, but that does not make it a X program. Thus, you are running a program from X, in a X window, but I wouldn't necessarily call that running under X. I may be wrong, however, for all I know it may be common to say that such programs run under X. Anyhow, that is why I put the quotes there. -- Haavard Vaagstoel <havardjv@gudmund.vgs.no> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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