From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 9 23:12:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA15022 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 23:12:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from inet.chipweb.ml.org (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA15000 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 23:12:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Message-Id: <199808100612.XAA15000@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 18872 invoked from network); 10 Aug 1998 06:11:39 -0000 Received: from speedy.chipweb.ml.org (172.16.1.1) by inet.chipweb.ml.org with SMTP; 10 Aug 1998 06:11:39 -0000 X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1998 23:11:37 -0700 To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz, Greg Lehey From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199808100335.PAA04328@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> References: <19980810094617.Z11095@freebie.lemis.com> <199808100014.MAA08319@terminator2.xtra.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03:35 PM 8/10/98 +1200, Dan Langille wrote: >On 10 Aug 98, at 9:46, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Other have said "fetchmail", which runs on SMTP. That would be my >> preference. > >Well, first I tried the port. That failed because I didn't have python. >So I tried python. That failed because I didn't have Tk (whatever that >is). I went through the same thing. The port for fetchmail doesn't list python as a dependency (it explains somewhere that python is only for the configuration GUI, which isn't essential), but the installation fails if you don't have it. I went in and edited the fetchmail Makefiles (and copied and gzipped a "missing" manpage file) and got it to install for me, simply without the fetchmailconf program. I didn't want to install Tk because I don't have X running on this machine because it's a server of sorts. >So I tried the package. Well, I've got that, untarred it. Now what do I >do with it? Where do I find the instructions which tell me what to do? You don't actually gunzip or untar it. That's handled by the pkg_add mechanism. pkg_add packagefilename.tar.gz >This is why I like compiling a port [when it works]. ditto. --Ludwig Pummer ludwigp@bigfoot.com ludwigp@chipweb.ml.org ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message