Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 11:54:19 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, Toby Swanson <toby@milkyway.org> Subject: Email [was: do I need a POP server for this?] Message-ID: <19980706115419.02576@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199807052345.LAA21696@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 11:45:31AM %2B1300 References: <359FD02B.4E0BDB3A@milkyway.org> <199807052345.LAA21696@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>
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On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 11:45:31AM +1300, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 5 Jul 98, at 15:12, Toby Swanson wrote:
>
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> There is no /usr/etc directory. What's gone wrong with the install?
> Unfortunately, the README contains a disclaimer: "It assumes that you
> are not only familiar with Unix but also capable fo preforming Unix
> system administration". LOL! Clearly, I am not. <grin>
Nor is any newbie, but you're asking newbies?! You really should be
seeking help from freebsd-questions. They might ask you for more
information, for example any error messages that occurred during the
installation, so anticipate and tell them all you can. When someone
answers, two things will happen: the answer will be seen and evaluated by
hundreds of experts who are quick to correct any misinformation or
ambiguity, and the answer will be archived so that the next person in
your situation doesn't have to ask again. Nobody's going to look in a
-newbies archive for an answer to a question, let alone one about setting
up qpopper.
It'd be a good idea to fix up your line lengths first, or they might have
a little dig at you :-) Many of us can't easily read or reply unless the
line length is kept well under 80 characters, and easy to read mail gets
read first.
But I'm really curious about why this is happening. I used and supported
Pegasus Mail for years, and always found it to be pretty standards
compliant, cross-platform-friendly and full of features and defaults that
made real good sense. I haven't used it for a while now, and suddenly I
see Pegasus users coming out with huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge line
lengths. Have they changed the default or something? I'd really like to
know whether or not to keep recommending it (ahem... to those windoze
users who are about to convert to FreeBSD, of course! :-). Can you fill
us in on what's changed, and if we're real lucky, how hard it is to fix?
Some of us need to know these things to get our email presentable for
posting to FreeBSD lists anyway.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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