From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 2 19:19:48 2005 Return-Path: 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 687D516A4CF for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 19:19:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mra03.ex.eclipse.net.uk (mra03.ex.eclipse.net.uk [212.104.129.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD4FD43D39 for ; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 19:19:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from glyn@millingtons.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mra03.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A8D32E2EF7; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 20:19:46 +0100 (BST) Received: from mra03.ex.eclipse.net.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mra03.ex.eclipse.net.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05357-02-90; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 20:19:44 +0100 (BST) Received: from glynthebearded.millingtons.org (unknown [82.152.120.109]) by mra03.ex.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F39F62E2F15; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 20:19:41 +0100 (BST) Received: by glynthebearded.millingtons.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 323B162C3; Sat, 2 Apr 2005 20:20:40 +0100 (BST) From: Glyn Millington To: Gert Cuykens Organization: Central Church, Torquay, U.K. References: <20050402062153.GB9145@a.k9di.org> X-Now-Playing: There's a deathly hush in the close tonight! X-Liturgical-Date: Solemnity: Saturday in the Octave of Easter, A.D. 2005 Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 20:20:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Gert Cuykens's message of "Sat, 2 Apr 2005 19:36:22 +0200") Message-ID: <86mzshugs8.fsf@nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by Eclipse VIRUSshield at eclipse.net.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console mail client X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: glyn@millingtons.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2005 19:19:48 -0000 Gert Cuykens writes: > so if i understand it corectly the hole mail thingie is based on > > -a mail client (mutt) > -a mail sender (sendmail) > -a mail storage (postfix) > -a mail receiver (fetchmail) As Chris said, not quite. The place to _begin_ on all this is is the Handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-using.html I'm assuming you are on a machine linking to an ISP's smtp and pop3 servers? To set up e-mail as God intended what you need in brief is A. A mail transport agent - sendmail OR postfix, (or exim or even qmail) but not both. This will hand off the e-mail once you have posted it and will take care of one part of its journey into your computer/s. B. A Mail reader/composer, an MUA, mail user agent. Lots of these to choose from, mutt or elm being old standbyes. C. Something to fetch the mail if you are using your ISP's pop3 server Fetchmail is good. D. Something to sort the mail - procmail is a good mail processor Coming in the process is something like:- Fetchmail -> sendmail/postfix -> procmail -> mutt There are opportunities for filtering spam at different points in this chain. The outward move is simpler mutt -> sendmail -> your ISP OR you can use something like Mozilla Thunderbird which is an all-in-one mail system by itself, and is possibly easier to set up. Good luck! atb Glyn