Yes...Av is right. Kmail will do the GUI thing for you and also access
multiple accounts with the lowest level of hankering with lots of
under-the-covers programs running like fetchmail/sendmail/postfix. As far
as Postfix and Sendmail go, it's one or the other cause they do NOT get
along or play well together at all. Sendmail is far more robust then
Postfix. Both can be configured from the Webmin interface.
I've got Sendmail sending and receiving mail on my machine now and it
works fawlessly for me. No fuss...no muss.
Mark
/ * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat
* in order to get the rats up from below decks
* so they can be kicked over the side and drowned!
*
* REGISTERED LINUX USER # 182496
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On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 Abraham Pinzur had this to say!
>
> John -
>
> It sounds to me like KMail should fit your needs as far as a mail reader is
> concerned.
>
> - Av -
>
> --
> Abraham P. (Av) Pinzur
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.crispgraphics.com/~newav
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > John Rye
> > Sent: Wednesday, 06 December, 2000 07:29
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] Tripwire documentation???
> >
> >
> > Mark Weaver wrote:
> > >
> > > O my...it's looking like I'm going to have to decypher the man pages on
> > > this one. Crap! it's going to be a long weekend with a headache again.
> > >
> > > but thanks John for the reply. And by the way...I've been wondering
> > > about this...how come so many re-installs?
> >
> > Mostly - it's called - 'Oh darn it - that's fuxed it!!
> >
> > I get myself into a position from which I can't recover and due to
> > our wide time differences it's easier to re-install and recover from
> > backups, normally around 1 to 2 hours.
> >
> > It's hell waiting for the rest of the world to wake up, this usually
> > happens during my evening when all you guys in Gore County are wide
> > asleep!! (Big silly grin!!).
> >
> > I have to admit that I genuinely believe that I'm winning this battle
> > as it it's Thursday AM right now and the last re-install was on 24th
> > November. Overall I'm pleased with what I'm learning here without
> > hassling with trying to keep up with the Jones's as far as distribution
> > levels go.
> >
> > At this point I'm about ready to start planing a shift of mailing
> > systems
> > away from Netscape. It serves well but I haven't yet found a way to get
> > Netscape to pick up all mail from all email accounts in one fell swoop -
> > I have 5 accounts which I monitor!!
> >
> > When I used windows I had a bunch of batch files which switched the Ns
> > preferences on the fly, but so far haven't sorted my thoughts on how
> > to do it with Linux - I assume that I have to do some messing about
> > with fetchmail, sendmail, postfix. But I have a fair bit of reading
> > to do yet.
> >
> > It's coming - but any and all suggestions are welcome with the proviso
> > that my preference is toward a GUI mailing proggy with threading. The
> > reason for this quite simple - my vision is failing and it's easier to
> > mess with fonts and colours in the GUI's.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > John
> > --
> > ICQ#: 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected"
> > (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
> >
> >
>
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