Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 07:03:48 -0500 From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com> To: Andreas Ntaflos <ant@overclockers.at>, "Ernest H. Rice" <ehr3@ehr3.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail clients Message-ID: <200212240703.48690.timothyk@wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20021224001151.GA54376@Deadcell.ant> References: <200212231721.22535.ehr3@fred.ehr3.net> <20021224001151.GA54376@Deadcell.ant>
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kmail retrieves e-mail from a local /var/mail/$username account just fine= =2E =46rom the menubar: Settings ---> Configure KMail ---->click on Network ----> Add an account = (for=20 sending use either smtp or sendmail, whichever works for you) Click on=20 receiving and click the "local mailbox" radio button and click apply. In the "receiving" tab select the new account, choose Edit and select FCN= TL as=20 the mailbox locking device. Click Apply again and OK and go get your loc= al=20 mail. HTH Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Monday 23 December 2002 07:11 pm, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 05:21:22PM -0500, Ernest H. Rice wrote: > > Si u decided to try and use another mail program. > > k-mail doesnt look for my email in /var/mail/... which is a problem > > Have you set your $MAIL environment variable to /var/mail/$USERNAME? Al= so, > I am sure you can tell kmail where to look for new mail, although I don= 't > know much about that program since I've never used it myself. The defau= lt > place is /var/mail/$USERNAME though. > > regards To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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