From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 13 1:50:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E37DA14DEF for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 01:50:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@scratch.demon.co.uk) Received: from [212.228.22.156] (helo=franklin.matlink) by post-20.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 10Ll3X-0002cw-0K; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 09:50:07 +0000 Received: (from tim@localhost) by franklin.matlink (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA05173; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 09:50:07 GMT (envelope-from tim) Message-Id: <199903130950.JAA05173@franklin.matlink> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 09:49:45 +0000 (GMT) From: tim@scratch.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: wwwoffle - or other - configuration problems To: ben@scientia.demon.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19990313015845.A60514@scientia.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13 Mar, Ben Smithurst wrote: > tim@scratch.demon.co.uk wrote: > >> firstly www - having messed around for a while looking for a decent www >> browser after netscape failed to work, I have now had to reinstall the >> aout libs for x11 to get netscape working again. This is o.k. but I'd >> rather move away from aout, is there another browser worth considering ? >> >> also on www - I am having trouble with wwwoffle http://localhost:8080/ >> fails ! > > "fails" isn't very helpful. In what way is it failing? Netscape45-navigator - The document contained no data. Try again later, or contact the server's administrator Lynx - Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted. Alert!: Unable to access document. > >> any sugestions welcome or any other choice of caching and fetching, I >> have webcopy installed but have not experimented much. > > Stick with wwwoffle, I find it great for dialup use and have had very few > problems with it. > >> secondly mail - I have tkrat, sendmail, procmail and fetchmail. on >> connection ppp-linkup runs fetchmail and for that matter wwwoffle - >> online. sendmail calls procmail as the local mailer, but sometimes my >> mail gets downloaded to oblivion, not just on or two messages but all >> of it - pain in the butt !. > > Look at the logs for fetchmail, sendmail, procmail, and anything else > which could possibly be involved. It can't have disappeared without good > reason, unless you have broken something quite badly. Ive had a look at this - maybe I can sort this one out, but what do I read the sendmail.st log with. > >> Also my messages very often appear twice though I presume this may be >> a pop / stmp problem - not worried about this for the moment. > > since you're using Demon I'd recommend you just let them deliver your > mail in the Right Way, namely smtp. Once you do that, you've eliminated > one program (fetchmail) which could be causing the problem. > > If you're interested in trying other MTAs, Exim is very nice. With > it, I have no need for procmail since Exim has built in capabilities > for filtering mail. Admittedly, they may not be quite as advanced as > procmail, I haven't investigated fully. You can certainly use regular > expressions on headers/body to forward/pipe/save mail to other places if > needed. > >> thirdly news - here is a complete void with me so is it best for me to >> use a specific news reader or have it bought in and read with my mail >> reader - I think I would prefer this. > > Use a mail reader for mail. Use a newsreader for news. > > My choices: > news reader - slrn > news server - inn2 (maybe overkill for a small site, but it works) > news fetching - suck > > all in /usr/ports/news > Thanks for the help To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message