On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 18:54:35 EST, Shaleh wrote: > I am using a modem and ppp to login to my ISP. What is a good setup for > e-mail??? Currently I use NS4's e-mail but it is a little buggy and > crashes often. I would like to have a nice X front end. I currently > recieve between 250 and 350 e-mails a day and am logged in via modem > sporadically at best.
exmh is popular, I like it, it has never crashed on me, it has lots of nice features, and it is packaged for both bo and hamm. exmh home page http://www.beedub.com/exmh/ exmh is a tcl/tk frontend to MH or nmh (so you'll need MH or nmh too), and I'd recommend running procmail to sort your mail, and fetchmail to get your mail, and smail to send mail, assuming dialup networking. If this sounds a little more involved than configuring netscape, it is, however I think you'll find the added functionality worthwhile in the long run. I configured fetchmail and promail mostly using the documentation available in the package (man, info, /usr/doc/*), however some online procmail resources were also helpful for fine tuning: http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~ian/procmail.html http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue14/procmail.html http://www.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/procmail/mini-faq.html http://www.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/procmail/links.html The primary obstacle to overcome with smail is rewriting headers and making them stick during smtp posts. I like Daniel Martin's solution, but there are both simpler and more complex methods: http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html Coincidentally, I recommend you follow the recent advice regarding MH configuration: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9803/msg01287.html More good MH resources: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/mh-faq/part1/f aq.html http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/ Exmh itself is pretty easy to configure, has a gui for most configuration, help menu (in 2.x version) which includes faq and mailing lists subscription. Or, you could switch to RedHat, like Bruce Parens, the former Debian maintainer, and it will probably all be configured for you. Say it isn't so, Bruce. http://www.lh.umu.se/%7ebjorn/mhonarc-files/debian-devel/msg02259.html -- David Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
