From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 9 23:12:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA15055 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 23:12:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA15042 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 23:12:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA10671; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:10:56 +1200 (NZST) Message-Id: <199808100610.SAA10671@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Greg Lehey Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:10:59 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: receiving mail directly Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980810141803.I11095@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199808100335.PAA04328@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>; from Dan Langille on Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 03:35:12PM +1200 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I believe some of these things have been overtaken by other posts, but I'll answer just for completeness. I think I'm going to try the store-and-forward technique because of issues particular to my situation. I'll cover that under a separate thread. thanks. On 10 Aug 98, at 14:18, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 10 August 1998 at 15:35:12 +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). > > So why didn't you try porting tk? I did actually search for tk. But I wasn't sure which port was actually tk. There were several with tk in their name. > Of course, this should happen automatically. How did you go about it? I ftp'd to the ftp site. Did a get. Then a make install. > > 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? > > RTFM. fetchmail(1). I guess I wasn't clear enough. I can't *find* the documention. man was *first* thing I tried. The *last* thing I tried was asking *where* the documentation is. In between I tried other stuff. The problem was I can't find no FM. The problem is that the manual is not installed. I went to the website to look up the fetchmail manual, but it's not there either. I just now checked the pkg directory. There's a man directory there with fetchmail docs in it. I've cp'd the files over to /usr/share/man/man1 and now have the manuals online. That said, I know where the manual is now. Thanks! :) -- Dan Langille DVL Software Limited http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd : my [mis]adventures To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message