Re: e-mail questions

[kotsya@u.washington.edu (David Stern)]

On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 18:54:35 EST, Shaleh wrote:
> I am using a modem and ppp to login to my ISP.  What is a good setup for
> e-mail???  Currently I use NS4's e-mail but it is a little buggy and
> crashes often.  I would like to have a nice X front end.  I currently
> recieve between 250 and 350 e-mails a day and am logged in via modem
> sporadically at best.

exmh is popular, I like it, it has never crashed on me, it has lots of 
nice features, and it is packaged for both bo and hamm.

  exmh home page
  http://www.beedub.com/exmh/

exmh is a tcl/tk frontend to MH or nmh (so you'll need MH or nmh too), 
and I'd recommend running procmail to sort your mail, and fetchmail to 
get your mail, and smail to send mail, assuming dialup networking.

If this sounds a little more involved than configuring netscape, it is, 
however I think you'll find the added functionality worthwhile in the 
long run.

I configured fetchmail and promail mostly using the documentation 
available in the package (man, info, /usr/doc/*), however some online 
procmail resources were also helpful for fine tuning:

  http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~ian/procmail.html
  http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue14/procmail.html
  http://www.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/procmail/mini-faq.html
  http://www.helsinki.fi/~reriksso/procmail/links.html

The primary obstacle to overcome with smail is rewriting headers and 
making them stick during smtp posts.  I like Daniel Martin's solution, 
but there are both simpler and more complex methods:

  http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html

Coincidentally, I recommend you follow the recent advice regarding MH 
configuration:

  http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9803/msg01287.html

More good MH resources:

  http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/mail/mh-faq/part1/f
aq.html
  http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/

Exmh itself is pretty easy to configure, has a gui for most 
configuration, help menu (in 2.x version) which includes faq and 
mailing lists subscription.

Or, you could switch to RedHat, like Bruce Parens, the former Debian 
maintainer, and it will probably all be configured for you.  Say it 
isn't so, Bruce.

  http://www.lh.umu.se/%7ebjorn/mhonarc-files/debian-devel/msg02259.html

-- 
David Stern                          
------------------------------------------------------------------
                             http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya
                                           kotsya@u.washington.edu




--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org