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Date:      Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:38:17 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Chip <chip@wiegand.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Netscape, may be off topic
Message-ID:  <20000816143816.A84889@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <399A20E4.5A1B406E@wiegand.org>; from chip@wiegand.org on Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:04:36PM -0700
References:  <3998935A.720FC3BB@wiegand.org> <20000815103154.B3999@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3998A282.CB2B194B@wiegand.org> <20000815113359.C3999@wantadilla.lemis.com> <399A20E4.5A1B406E@wiegand.org>

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On Tuesday, 15 August 2000 at 22:04:36 -0700, Chip wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>>> differant email program. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Anything except Netscape.  Look at the mess it made of your message.
>> I assume you didn't really intend it to look like this.  I have a
>> number of suggestions at http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html.
>
> I read your web page about mail and found it very
> enlightening. Thankyou.  I have installed mutt and see that I now
> need another app to download my email from the server (my isp's mail
> server). I have tried half a dozen differant apps from the ports and
> either they are not the right app for the job or they crashed
> continually. So then I got out your book and read the chapter on
> mail, which I should've done long ago, and am ready to use sendmail,
> since it is already running by default. Only problem is I can't find
> the sendmail.cf file. I used the find command and it didn't find it
> either. It did find sendmail, just not sendmail.cf. So I guess there
> is some more configuring I need to do?

You should have a sendmail.cf in /etc/mail.  But that won't download
mail from a POP or IMAP server.  I think mutt might do this itself,
though I'm not sure, but the canonical application at the moment is
fetchmail.  And yes, I've heard of bugs in it.

Greg
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