From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 25 11:20:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA12874 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 11:20:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA12867 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 11:20:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA12616; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 06:19:52 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19980326061948.63584@welearn.com.au> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 06:19:48 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: ruth moulton Cc: Rick Hamell , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Email [was: Squid will that be fried ?] References: <199803250858.IAA01513@muswell.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199803250858.IAA01513@muswell.demon.co.uk>; from ruth moulton on Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 08:58:47AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Mar 25, 1998 at 08:58:47AM +0000, ruth moulton wrote: > Rick > > sorry, I missed the start of this thread - so don't know if the > following is out of turn but No, we do need to cover the use of email some more. Newbies cannot survive on the other lists unless they get this right. > Netscape - now free and runs on most os - has pretty good e-mail > facilities, I haven't used Netscape for email but I've been the victim of its users many times :-( Please, if you must use Netscape or any microsoft or other nonstandard email application, first ensure that: 1. You have thoroughly studied http://www.lemis.com/email.html 2. You understand what it says 3. Your email app (or whatever) is set up to comply, and 4. You know how to use it to ensure it complies Beware: These days a lot of software has default settings that are wrong, to make it work well with that company's software and hideously with every other company's software. (They tell me it's "marketing" but I have more colourful words for these practices!) Also make sure that it doesn't send out HTML or any other attachments, whether it tells you it's sending them or not. Of course you've all read http://www.lemis.com/email.html already because it covers more than just the use of software, so this is a reminder :-) In case you haven't read it yet, here's the URL: http://www.lemis.com/email.html If you forget where it is, ask for yet another subtle hint :-) I'm going to start pestering everyone here until they get it right. That's better than being criticised elsewhere, don't you think? Discuss here if you have any questions about email. -- Regards, -*Sue*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message