I have sendmail installed currently, but I also like qmail. It's much easier to actually configure. I just haven't actually gotten around to installing it. If I can't find something amazing to do with filtering and such, to get everything working with one account, I'll go with the 'several accounts' option. And yes, virtual consoles are nice. I started with six, then added six more. <grin> Chris At 10:03 AM 4/3/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Actually, you are looking for two questions in one. The MTA is actually >what will send out the email and place it into you mailbox when it comes >in. The two most popular are Sendmail and Qmail in that order. I recomend >you consider Qmail as it is less likely to leave security holes. > >The other is what email program to use. Since I only use a single address >most of the time I just use Pine. Now an option would be to setup a >different account on your machine for the different email accounts. Then >qmail can be configured to set you email address accordingly. But this >makes you login to each account to check the mail for that account. That >isn't so bad though as you can keep them all open and even do other things >with virtual consoles. > >To use virtual consoles, you can press Alt and a function key. Most >installations have 6 by default. Each console operated independantly from >the others. > >Kirk Wood >Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net >------------------ > >Your fly might be open (but don't check it just now). > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
