From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 18 0:13:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C565837B401 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 00:13:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.65.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25B8643F1E for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 00:13:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Quinn1@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 26425 invoked by uid 0); 18 Jan 2003 08:13:46 -0000 Received: from digi09.bne.australink.net (HELO whore.gmx.de) (203.49.55.203) by mail.gmx.net (mp007-rz3) with SMTP; 18 Jan 2003 08:13:46 -0000 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030118181134.00b3c848@pop.gmx.net> X-Sender: 17682868@pop.gmx.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 18:13:35 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Quinn Ellis Subject: Re: newbie mail help In-Reply-To: <002b01c2beba$c1d2b000$6501a8c0@socal.rr.com> References: <3E244093.3060706@potentialtech.com> <20030117021944.GC11624@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:28 PM 17/01/2003 -0800, you wrote: >I've been installing FreeBSD on my home desktop. A little each day I spend >configuring. I've worked out most things with books and man pages. I am >connected to the internet by cable modem. Links worked perfectly right away. >Where I am failing is setting up my email. I am not trying to be a mail >server, just get and send mail through my ISP. The documentation seems to be >geared to mail servers. This is really confusing me. Can someone point me in >the right direction for help on email? Just a nudge in the right direction >would be most helpful. I am in the same boat, and just use my ISP smtp and pop3 server through kde's KMail, and leave setting up a mail server to those who would use it. And there's no need to apologize for using your choice of email client. Regards Quinn Ellis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message