From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 27 16:50:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C017B37B6B7 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 2000 16:50:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (idxwc04-159.idx.com.au [203.166.1.159]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA28217; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:49:23 +1000 From: Danny To: "Jim Freeze" , Subject: Re: How to access POP3 mail? Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:51:50 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: <01d101bf975b$127c0900$3a6ec8d0@lexmark.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00032910532505.00326@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I migrated all my Windows NT Workstaton 4 desktop to FreeBSD 3.3 beginning of this year suggestions :- Use KDE KDE comes with Kmail, which allows you to Filter mail which I find personally very good On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Jim Freeze wrote: > I have the 4 cd set of FBSD 3.4 installed at home and am using user PPP > to dial up to the internet. > In the process of transitioning all my stuff from windows to FBSD, > I only have remaining how to access my email, which now sits > out on a POP3 server from my ISP. > > I have Greg's book and have read the little bit he wrote about > accessing pop mail, but I am still at a loss as what to do. > > He says to get popper from ports. I can't find it in ports. What > cd is it on. > He also says get popclient. I can't find this one either. > > I also checked the ftp.freebsd.org site, and was not able to find > them there either. I did find qpopper. Is that popper? Are they the same? > > So, what is the best way to get my email to my desktop, which has > to dial up via a modem? > > Also, once I get the mail, how do I configure (sendmail?, mutt?) to > send mail to the outside world? > > Thanks > > > ================== > Jim D. Freeze > jim@freeze.org > ================== > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message