Re: Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends
If you're only interested in retrieving your POP mail from your ISP account, and sending mail out to the Internet (i.e., no local delivery to machines on a home network), then the only thing you need to configure is Netscape Mail. In your Netscape preferences set both your incoming and outgoing mail server to your ISP's server. This is essentially the Windows way of doing things-- if you have any problems, talk to your ISP. When you've set up some more computers at home and want to deliver mail locally, you can look into exim and fetchmail. HTH Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" >>> "Barry Rueger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/29 8:34 AM >>> Wow - linux is not for the faint of heart. After a number iterations of deselect I have both Xwindows and netscape happening. I have to say that dselect seems to be pretty good at keeping track of what has and hasn't been installed, and making sure that it gets fixed the next time around. Thanks to all who helped me out (I think I had a dozen replies!). Today's challenge is mail. I gather that getting and sending my email via dial up is a process that needs a number of components. Initially I think I'll just use Netscape as an email package. (Although I LOVE Pegasus mail on my PC). WVdial is working wonderful, so what bits do I need in the chain to get my mail to and from Netscape? And what programs configure them? Obviously I'd like the mail for a user to reside in their home directory. A couple of quickies as well: I gather that there are configuration files for most of the things that I've installed. Is there a convention for naming these (like ending them in .conf), and where are they likely to be kept? A Debian specific one: when installing from discs one is presented with a nice package that allows you to install various components like mice and CDROMs and such. Is that tool still accessible after you've installed the base system? Thanks folks - last time you saved me several hours. Barry === Barry Rueger & Victoria Fenner Bagatelle Communications & Management 22 Ashburn Dr, Nepean ON K2E 6N3613-274-4441 Phone http://www.synapse.net/~rueger/ 613-274-4442 Fax -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 02:53:01PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >A Debian specific one: when installing from discs one is presented > >with a nice package that allows you to install various components > >like mice and CDROMs and such. Is that tool still accessible after > >you've installed the base system? > I don't think it's available after you've finished your installation. The modconf program used for installing modules is a package, but I'm not sure if that's what's meant. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgp3VVKVsD65d.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends
"Barry Rueger" wrote: >A couple of quickies as well: I gather that there are configuration >files for most of the things that I've installed. Is there a convention >for naming these (like ending them in .conf), and where are they >likely to be kept? Config files are named however the software writer chose; all config files with system-wide effects should be in /etc or its sub-directories. Files that affect a single user's sessions should be in or under his home directory. Files may be named *.conf, *.cfg, *.config, *rc and so on. Config files in your home directory may have names starting with a dot, which means they don't normally get listed by ls; use `ls -A' to see them too. All config files ought to be capable of being changed with a text-editor, but a number of packages provide configuration tools. You should always start by reading the documentation: man to list a manual page, info for GNU info pages, maybe netscape for HTML. To see what a package provides, try `dpkg -L | less' which will give you a list of all files in a package; read documentation in /usr/doc/ or /usr/share/doc/. Some packages have their detailed documentation split off into separate documentation packages. Tkman is a nice tool for reading man pages. >A Debian specific one: when installing from discs one is presented >with a nice package that allows you to install various components >like mice and CDROMs and such. Is that tool still accessible after >you've installed the base system? I don't think it's available after you've finished your installation. -- Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine." II Timothy 4:2
Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends
Wow - linux is not for the faint of heart. After a number iterations of deselect I have both Xwindows and netscape happening. I have to say that dselect seems to be pretty good at keeping track of what has and hasn't been installed, and making sure that it gets fixed the next time around. Thanks to all who helped me out (I think I had a dozen replies!). Today's challenge is mail. I gather that getting and sending my email via dial up is a process that needs a number of components. Initially I think I'll just use Netscape as an email package. (Although I LOVE Pegasus mail on my PC). WVdial is working wonderful, so what bits do I need in the chain to get my mail to and from Netscape? And what programs configure them? Obviously I'd like the mail for a user to reside in their home directory. A couple of quickies as well: I gather that there are configuration files for most of the things that I've installed. Is there a convention for naming these (like ending them in .conf), and where are they likely to be kept? A Debian specific one: when installing from discs one is presented with a nice package that allows you to install various components like mice and CDROMs and such. Is that tool still accessible after you've installed the base system? Thanks folks - last time you saved me several hours. Barry === Barry Rueger & Victoria Fenner Bagatelle Communications & Management 22 Ashburn Dr, Nepean ON K2E 6N3613-274-4441 Phone http://www.synapse.net/~rueger/ 613-274-4442 Fax
