Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:55:09 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Chip <chip@wiegand.org>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Netscape, may be off topic Message-ID: <20000817095509.A4024@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000816143816.A84889@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:38:17PM %2B0930 References: <3998935A.720FC3BB@wiegand.org> <20000815103154.B3999@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3998A282.CB2B194B@wiegand.org> <20000815113359.C3999@wantadilla.lemis.com> <399A20E4.5A1B406E@wiegand.org> <20000816143816.A84889@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey said on Aug 16, 2000 at 14:38:17: > >> 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 -snip- > 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, New versions of mutt work fine with IMAP. I haven't tried POP, but it's supposed to handle that too. But you do need sendmail (or equivalent) for outgoing mail -- mutt won't connect directly to your ISP's SMTP server. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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