E-mail - clients & transporters

[Steve Holmes]

And while we are on pine options, you may want to look for and set one
column display; that should make life to be much easier.  Like he said,
look through all the options; one powerful mail client.  I forget exactly
where, but I'm pretty sure you could configure pine to use the smtp agent
for your internet provider and pine can also be told to get mail directly
from an imap server if your provider runs one.

I use pine on my slackware 7.1 installation and I like it a lot.  The
sendmail thing can be daunting at first but once set up, you won't have to
mess with it anymore.  For one thing, by default, sendmail usually will
send your outgoing mail directly to the recipient's transporter.  I've
been noticing lately that many ISP's are beginning to restrict their
routers to only let you send mail through the ISP's mail transport; they
apparently are trying to curb spam.  If this applies to you, you will need
to add an option to your sendmail configuration to send all outgoing mail
to one place.

If the sendmail sources are installed on your machine, look at the
linux-smtp.mc (or there abouts).  Add the following line:
define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.isp.com')
Just replace the smtp.isp.com with the name of your outgoing mail
transport.  If you've already been down this road, then sorry for the
extra noise.

Like I said, sendmail can be a real bugger for newcomers to linux.

On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi Gena:
> 
> OK, I'm on my way to bed but I'll quickly address some of your questions.
> 
> Firstly to pine.  Your main hassle is that it's not showing the
> cursor.  This is a right pain, but it's fixable.  You need to go to the
> main menu, go into settings, then config.  If you've never been in here,
> then I'd suggest taking a half-hour or so to go through it entirely, as
> there are lots and lots of options in here that you'll want to look at and
> consider using.  Anyway, hit W to search and search for cursor.  You'll
> have to hit W again and then hit enter so that it searches for cursor again
> a couple of times before you get to the show cursor option.  Hit X to check
> this option and pine will immediately become much more usable.
> 
> As I say, I recommend going through all the pine config stuff at least
> once, as it's a real eye opener, so to speak.  The folder list thing is in
> there too, I have mine listed in a single vertical collumn which makes
> life infinitely easier.
> 
> I'll leave fetchmail till tomorrow, but be assured that I will post back on
> the subject.  I did write up a quick tutorial message on this before, so I
> might dig it out, or you could search the archives if you're game (not sure
> if it's on this list or blinux-newbie, but it was on one of them).
> 
> Finally, if you still want assistance before you can get speak freely
> working, you might consider battling with speak freely for windows in the
> interim.  A number of people have done this and while it's not as good as
> the linux version, it might get you through.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
> 
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