From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 1 03:47:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 12DB016A41F for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 03:47:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A50B43D45 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 03:47:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j813jxiL006849; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:46:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <4316796D.3020604@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:45:49 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050823 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Larson References: <20050831204633.68350.qmail@web34214.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050831204633.68350.qmail@web34214.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd Mailing Subject: Re: mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 03:47:10 -0000 John Larson wrote: >how do I make mail read the mail. I can read mail >using mail -f mail. mail being a file that is created >when mail is sent to a specific user. I have set the >folder in the home directory .mailrc. what other >changes do I need to make. >John Larson > > > With my tongue only 2/3rds of the way in my cheek, based on the subject line of all your posts this month, ;-) I'm going to suggest either one of: 1. Go to Yahoo.com and click "Free mail: sign up" (a wimp's way, dare I say? ;-) [Hmm, I guess I should have taken notice of your e-mail address before I said that. Nothing personal*, believe me....] or: 2. Perform the following, as root. # cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt # make install clean # rehash # echo "alias mail mutt" >> ~/.cshrc # source ~/.cshrc # mail Probably even pine or elm would be preferable to plain old mail(1). When a program's man(1) page uses the phrase "command syntax reminiscent of ed(1)" ... well, for some of us, that's quite enough 'sed' right there. :-) Kevin Kinsey *NB: while the sarcasm in this post is, for the most part, intentional, it is in no way intended to be personal. IMHO, suggesting a superior alternative in software is a pretty friendly gesture, and I certainly bear no ill will against someone I've never met. H.A.N.D! :-)