On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 10:49:56AM +0200, chris glur wrote: > AFAICS an email client has 2 parts: > 1. a data-base to manage the In/Out mails > 2. transport agent/s for send and receive.
> Since mc is THE superb data-base manager, it seems that it could do email > well? I don't know if mc will do mail or not -- if you are looking for something sensible why not use mutt? I can verify mutt can send and receive gmail, having become disenchanted with the service provided by my ISP. You'll want to be sure to use the sendmail provided by postfix (just install postfix: it'll de-install the old sendmail if it's there). You'll need google's certificates: there's a good (well, usable) set of instructions on setting it all up at: http://www.linuxexpert.ro/Linux-Tutorials/fetchmail-for-gmail-accounts.html > In my failed-state location, ISP's email facilities have crapped out, or > perhaps > the natives can only use FB & twitter; so I've had to resort to gmail, which > is > very inefficient and frustrating in the default/http mode. fetchmail will pull gmail Inbox contents down to your pc where mutt can display in threads, and allow you to compose replies in vim, all very efficient. > Does "mail -s <subject> -c <cc> <to>" use `sendmail` [or its proxy]? > sendmail is punishment to setup ! fetchmail, mutt, postfix all will need to be tweaked -- some punishment, yes, but in the end quite well worth the effort > gmail needs TLS/SSL > Is TLS/SSL a part of `sendmail`, or will `sendmail` call TLS/SSL? postfix's sendmail will use it if you tell it to, and get those certificates installed hth, sc _______________________________________________ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc