Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:10:59 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Message-ID: <199808100610.SAA10671@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <19980810141803.I11095@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199808100335.PAA04328@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 03:35:12PM %2B1200
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I believe some of these things have been overtaken by other posts, but I'll answer just for completeness. I think I'm going to try the store-and-forward technique because of issues particular to my situation. I'll cover that under a separate thread. thanks. On 10 Aug 98, at 14:18, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 10 August 1998 at 15:35:12 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: > > On 10 Aug 98, at 9:46, Greg Lehey wrote: > > > >> Other have said "fetchmail", which runs on SMTP. That would be my > >> preference. > > > > Well, first I tried the port. That failed because I didn't have python. > > So I tried python. That failed because I didn't have Tk (whatever that > > is). > > So why didn't you try porting tk? I did actually search for tk. But I wasn't sure which port was actually tk. There were several with tk in their name. > Of course, this should happen automatically. How did you go about it? I ftp'd to the ftp site. Did a get. Then a make install. > > So I tried the package. Well, I've got that, untarred it. Now what do > > I do with it? Where do I find the instructions which tell me what to > > do? > > RTFM. fetchmail(1). I guess I wasn't clear enough. I can't *find* the documention. man was *first* thing I tried. The *last* thing I tried was asking *where* the documentation is. In between I tried other stuff. The problem was I can't find no FM. The problem is that the manual is not installed. I went to the website to look up the fetchmail manual, but it's not there either. I just now checked the pkg directory. There's a man directory there with fetchmail docs in it. I've cp'd the files over to /usr/share/man/man1 and now have the manuals online. That said, I know where the manual is now. Thanks! :) -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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