Re: Pine 4.2

[Allix Primus <alleve idirect com>]

Thanks, it helped a lot, but I heard that sendmail was very hard to configure,
will it let me  send mail easily ? I already got the fetchmail working
successfully. And also was wondering how to make one of those scripts ?


On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 09:12:23PM -0400, Allix Primus wrote:
> > I'm kind of new to linux and was wondering how to set up something like 
> > pine or elm. I tried to look for some configuration program where it would let
> > me enter my smtp and pop but there is none, i was wondering if you could direct
> > me to a page where I can read up on this.
> 
> pine and elm (and mutt (my favorite)) do not do POP or SMTP. They are
> called Mail User Agents (MUA) and they expect some Mail Transfer Agent
> (MTA) to do POP and SMTP. They expect to find mail in your local mail
> spool file (normally /var/spool/mail/<username>), and expect to have an
> MTA like fetchmail pick up mail from your POP server (say, on your ISP)
> and put it your mail spool, and to have an MTA like sendmail(8) pick up
> their outgoing mail for delivery. Sendmail is probably already
> configured to do its job, but you will need to invoke fetchmail to get
> your mail. I wired that into a "get_mail" script that reads like this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> fetchmail -a -p POP3 -u robertmcclure mail.earthlink.net
> 
> Read the fetchmail man page (man fetchmail) for more information. FYI, I
> am also making use of my .netrc file to provide my earthlink password,
> but if you don't, you will be prompted for it. See the ftp man page (man
> ftp) for more information on the .netrc file.
> 
> Netscape's MUA is the only one I know of that can also serve as its own
> MTA. No, maybe Emacs' RMail may also do that, if so configured. Anyway,
> it's rare.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
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> 
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