On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:31:29AM -0700, Tim Howe wrote:
> Does mutt have to be specifically compiled with pop and imap support in
> order to use it for me everyday mail?
Only if you want to have mutt retrieve your mail for you with both pop
and imap servers. (I think its somewhat experimental, but quickly
getting better.)
> I was under the impression that
> mutt could be used for all your mail by setting up sendmail correctly
> and using fetchmail or something like that.
You can leave sendmail out of the fetching process.
man fetchmail
/procmail
However, I see a package
> called mutt-1.3.2i-slang-imap-pop in the OpenBSD packages, and a message
> on the OpenBSD misc list saying that it is needed or it won't work...
> What am I not understanding here?
mutt-1.2.5* were the stable packages, so 1.3.2{0,1} would be from -current,
and you know how hairy -current can be.
>
> TimH
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