From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 26 17:34:33 2003 Return-Path: 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 D6BDE16A4B3 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 17:34:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from endif.cjb.net (67-40-62-202.dnvr.qwest.net [67.40.62.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DAC243FA3 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2003 17:34:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from end@endif.cjb.net) Received: (qmail 33768 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2003 01:34:37 -0000 Received: from localhost (end@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Oct 2003 01:34:37 -0000 From: Robin Schoonover To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kline@thought.org Message-Id: <20031026183436.4c657664.end@endif.cjb.net> In-Reply-To: <20031027012334.GA64027@tao.thought.org> References: <20031027012334.GA64027@tao.thought.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: pop3 and socket 110 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 01:34:34 -0000 X-Original-Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 18:34:36 -0700 X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 01:34:34 -0000 On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 17:23:34 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > Trying to install a GUI MUA has me wedged ... and lost!! > > I've been trying to get the mozilla mail/news suite to > work for a long time--well, on and off! I finally > installed cucipop on NS1.THOUGHT.ORG and tried to start it. > > root@ns1:/usr/local/etc/rc.d# /usr/local/libexec/cucipop -Y > cucipop: Can't bind socket 110 > Something is probably already listening on port 110. Check sockstat -l (if it's FreeBSD, or check to see if something in inetd is grabbing it...). > > NS1 had a valid IP address; my two other systems are internal, > private, invisible from the outside. At any rate, after some > pondering I altered the 'news and mail' configuration. Voila; > mail *is* sent out (in HTML). But not received... (???) > /var/mail/kline is my spool; mozilla can't see this for some > reason. > mozilla doesn't know about these sort of mailboxes. It only knows about imap and pop3. > > evolution refuses to build because some of the GNOME libs > won't upgrade. (Of my 400 ports, just 11 seem broken.) > Can anybody recommend a GUI mail program that doesn't have > so many dependencies? > portupgrade might help your GNOME libs upgrade. Anyhow, I use sylpheed-claws (basically the more cutting edge version of sylpheed). > 1.) Do I really need pop3? If you want to use mozilla. > 2.) How do I get the mozilla mail to recognize the mail in my spool > dir? You probably don't. > 3.) What is a decent MUA? that's debatable. I consider what I use to be decent :P -- Robin Schoonover (aka End) # # There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty # people were trapped on the escalators. -- Stephen Wright