-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Your setup is fine but use something other than sendmail if possible. I am probably going to open up a can of worms here, but sendmail is perhaps the most insecure program ever developed for the Unix like operating system. use something like postfix, exim, qmail, or courier. - --- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net note, the following is used for automated processing. Please leave in tact if quoting me in a reply. Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Nickelson" <roylee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 11:13 PM Subject: Re: e-mail program > hi, > here is what I am trying to acomplish I am just wanting to send and > receive > e-mail at the moment. I would like to use something that is sor of > standard. > (like oe) but from the console. From what I can tell Mutt is good along > with sendmail and fetchmail. Is this the combination you use? I would > like > to somehow find where to congfigure this stuff without reading 4 or 5 > manuals before I can even do one thing. > Pine looks cool but I can't find where to put the user name and password > for > my isp. > Roy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 12:51 AM > Subject: Re: e-mail program > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Apr 30 2004 10:51 PM, Roy Nickelson wrote: >> Hi >> is mutt the best program to use for e-mail? Where do you configure the >> settings such as incomming and outgoing server username and password. > > Mutt is IMHO the best mail user agent available for use on the console, > but that is a *very* subjective question. Mutt is pretty difficult to > configure to take advantage of its more advanced features, but once you > get it working it is very nice. > > You don't put your smtp and pop3 server stuff in your .muttrc (mutt's > configuration file). You need to sett up something like fetchmail to get > your messages off your pop server and set up some kind of mail transfer > agent to handle sending mail from mutt. There are many options for MTA's > including sendmail, exim, postfix, Qmail, ETC. Etc. ETC. There are also > programs designed to be much simpler than a full blown MTA which just > send mail to your smtp server. Some of these are ssmtp, nullmailer, and > bsmtp. I don't use one of these, but i am sure someone on this list does > and could help you with them. > > The mutt manual, located on your system at > /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt, is a very good reference for all things > mutt and can provide you with hours of oh so fun reading. > >> Also I am willing to try other e-mail clients. > > NOOO! Butt seriously if you just want something to work out of the box > more or less then you probably want to try pine. It is not as > configureable as mutt, but it does get the job done. If you're an emacs > or emacspeak user then you may want to check out gnus which I have heard > a lot about, but I don't like emacs so... As others have said try > various things and you will find what you prefer and then you will be > telling people on mailing lists that it is the best. *chuckle* Have a > nice day and happy hunting for your mail program. > > - -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan > > Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFAkyzM5JK61UXLur0RAmuCAJsEZBgiLcNO6J4gs1hNMFYR0NasmwCfa/YM > viCAnxsNKM3DXd73bXPrNe4= > =OHaV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQJTFryenap9Jqj2wEQJr2QCeJTITjDVIcHRQm7wUemmlgO4i7bcAoKXQ d3NhSOlGYQ0OgxLTvgk05z7V =uMGr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
