e-mail program

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Apr 30 2004 10:51 PM, Roy Nickelson wrote:
> Hi
> is mutt the best program to use for e-mail?  Where do you configure the
> settings such as incomming and outgoing server username and password.

Mutt is IMHO the best mail user agent available for use on the console,
but that is a *very* subjective question. Mutt is pretty difficult to
configure to take advantage of its more advanced features, but once you
get it working it is very nice.

You don't put your smtp and pop3 server stuff in your .muttrc (mutt's
configuration file). You need to sett up something like fetchmail to get
your messages off your pop server and set up some kind of mail transfer
agent to handle sending mail from mutt. There are many options for MTA's
including sendmail, exim, postfix, Qmail, ETC. Etc. ETC. There are also
programs designed to be much simpler than a full blown MTA which just
send mail to your smtp server. Some of these are ssmtp, nullmailer, and
bsmtp. I don't use one of these, but i am sure someone on this list does
and could help you with them.

The mutt manual, located on your system at
/usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt, is a very good reference for all things
mutt and can provide you with hours of oh so fun reading.

> Also I am willing to try other e-mail clients.

NOOO! Butt seriously if you just want something to work out of the box
more or less then you probably want to try pine. It is not as
configureable as mutt, but it does get the job done. If you're an emacs
or emacspeak user then you may want to check out gnus which I have heard
a lot about, but I don't like emacs so... As others have said try
various things and you will find what you prefer and then you will be
telling people on mailing lists that it is the best. *chuckle* Have a
nice day and happy hunting for your mail program.

- -- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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