From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 20 7:33:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC7B37B440 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 07:33:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.88.141]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000820143354.FEZR16423.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 15:33:54 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA01637; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 15:33:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 15:33:51 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: GDB Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: e-mail: howto? Message-ID: <20000820153351.F254@parish> References: <001001c00ab0$88a7e400$931023d4@gdb> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001001c00ab0$88a7e400$931023d4@gdb>; from g-d-b@freegates.be on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 04:11:27PM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 04:11:27PM +0200, GDB wrote: > I want to use e-mail under FreeBSD 3.2. How can I do that? sendmail > is running, but where do I have to specify my ISP POP and SMTP > servers? What do I have to do to send and receive e-mail with, lets > say, xfmail? > Please set you mailer to wrap at ~70 chars. fetchmail and procmail would be useful. fetchmail, err..., well..., fetches mail from your ISP and procmail is used to sort/filter mail (e.g. to put all mail from -questions into one mailbox and all mail from -chat into another etc.). Both can be found in the ports collection (/usr/ports/mail). -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message