e-mail program

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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Your setup is fine but use something other than sendmail if possible. I am 
probably going to open up a can of worms here, but sendmail is perhaps the 
most insecure program ever developed for the Unix like operating system. use 
something like postfix, exim, qmail, or courier.
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From: "Roy Nickelson" <roylee at visuallink.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: e-mail program


> hi,
> here is what I am trying to acomplish I am just wanting to send and 
> receive
> e-mail at the moment. I would like to use something that is sor of 
> standard.
> (like oe)  but from the console.  From what I can tell Mutt is good along
> with sendmail and fetchmail.  Is this the combination you use?  I would 
> like
> to somehow find where to congfigure this stuff without reading 4 or 5
> manuals before I can even do one thing.
> Pine looks cool but I can't find where to put the user name and password 
> for
> my isp.
> Roy
>
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> From: "Thomas Stivers" <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 12:51 AM
> Subject: Re: e-mail program
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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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