>> "Hans" == Hans van den Boogert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hans> So what about sending mail then? Using 'smail' sounds obvious,
Hans> but how does the route from MUA to the SMTP server go.
The MTA you install receives the mails you send using your MUA and
sends them to the destination. Either
> qmail and fetchmail are MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents), right?
qmail yes, fetchmail maybe, depending on your definition of an MTA.
> fetchmail downloads messages from a pop3/imap server and puts them into the
> local mail delivery system. (Besides, where do the messages end up and in
> what form?
Exim does permit header manipulations including rewrite.
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:03:19PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
> Thanks for the response guys. Sofar I understand that
>
> qmail and fetchmail are MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents), right?
>
> fetchmail downloads messages from a pop3/imap server and puts them into the
> local mail delivery s
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:03:19PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
>
> I've installed fetchmail and exim, but haven't had time to read the man
> pages. Does anybody have a good way to convert man pages into readable
> ASCII text, so I can print them out and read them off-line? (The purchasing
>
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
> qmail and fetchmail are MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents), right?
>
> fetchmail downloads messages from a pop3/imap server and puts them into the
> local mail delivery system. (Besides, where do the messages end up and in
> what form?)
Correct so far.
On 04-Jul-99 Pollywog wrote:
>>
> Mahogany is new, and still has some bugs, but I like it.
>
> I am still using xfmail but want to move to Mahogany as soon as some of
> the little bugs are fixed.
Thanks for the reference. I just tried mahogany. Nice GUI, and clearly
going somewhere.
I didn't stu
I was a Linux email newbie a few months back. What has brought me a good
solution is a combo consisting of exim/fetchmail/XFmail. If I were you I would
start out with XFmail on it's own. This email client is very simple to set up.
It does what you expect a normal GUI based email client to do with e
On 04-Jul-99 Lex Chive wrote:
> If you dont have a permanent connection to the internet the best way I know
> of
> is to use fetchmail. fetchmail will fetch (hehe...) the messages on your ISP
> (or your mail account wherever it is) and delivers them locally. Then you
> can
> either have your mail
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 09:43:06PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
> Could someone please post a quick mail-system setup for dummies? As said, I
> simply want to connect to my ISP, collect/download my mail and read it in a
> browser-like X program like Mahogany. What is the principle setup? (Ple
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