Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 01:34:34 -0000 From: Robin Schoonover <end@endif.cjb.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kline@thought.org Subject: Re: pop3 and socket 110 Message-ID: <20031026183436.4c657664.end@endif.cjb.net> In-Reply-To: <20031027012334.GA64027@tao.thought.org> References: <20031027012334.GA64027@tao.thought.org>
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On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 17:23:34 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> 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
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