Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 00:51:52 +0200 From: Cynic <cynic@mail.cz> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@brizzie.org>, "Joe Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: config for POP3 mail Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010615002135.03f5dba0@mail.cz> In-Reply-To: <00b201c0f51f$f1bc1380$0600a8c0@apana.org.au> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20010614221359.02130750@mail.cz> <5.1.0.14.2.20010614234835.02126ef8@mail.cz>
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At 00:18 15.6. 2001, Doug Young wrote the following:
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>> IMAP isn't an option for me, that means Pine is out of question...
>
>huh ?? ...... Pine works fine with POP3 or IMAP
Well... To make myself clear, I just describe my mail usage pattern
(on NT), because that's what I'm used to, and basically I'm looking
for a FreeBSD solution that will mimick it as closely as possible:
My workstation is on basically non-stop. I use Eudora for fetching,
reading, composing, and sending mail. It runs all the time. It checks
for, fetches, and filters new email from my POP3 accounts into local
folders every 3 minutes. I'm subscribed to a variety of mailing lists,
of which several are as busy as this one. 170 -- 230 messages a day
means that without regular vacuuing, my primary account (the one I'm
sending this from) would fill up withing a few days (it's only 10M),
and having all the mail in a single inbox would make it impossible to
handle.
So... I'm looking for a set of tools that will make me feel at home
as much as possible. So far it looks like: fetchmail/getmail to
retrieve and filter (could be done by procmail, right?) incoming
messages, Pine/Mutt/whatever to read, compose, and further process
the messages once they're here (like moving them from one folder to
another one, forwarding, you get the idea), and sendmail (or alike) to
send outgoing messages to my SMTP servers.
Have I gotten it right?
>> Unless I use something else to collect mail off the POP3 servers,
>> and use Pine on my local mailbox/maildir, I guess.
>>
>> I'm looking for a solution that will:
>> 1) collect my mail from several (actually, it's three) POP3 accounts
>> 2) filter it upon retrieval
>> 3) let me know that I have new mail (message sent to the console)
>>
>I don't have time or inclination to stuff around with applications
>that require
>me to read 97 million pages of martian before I know enough to get the
>thing
>working. At present I have two internet connections (ADSL with
>variable IP
>& permanent dialup modem with public IPs), a bunch of assorted IMAP /
>POP3
>email accounts, two FreeBSD gateways (one running the sendmail /
>cucipop),
>and various FreeBSD / Win9x/ WinME / W2K, Solaris workstations and
>everything simple & reliable. I did look at fetchmail, procmail &
>friends but
>never had the time to wade through the configuration nightmare ....
>one day
>I guess I'll spend the time & write up a logical "step by step"
>explanation but
>at present there are heaps of things with higher priority (like they
>pay the bills)
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cynic@mail.cz
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