Re: Help with E-Mail
If your just trying to download email from your ISP, couldn't you just
install netscape and use the POP mail on that? That's what I do, and
it's virtually idiot proof (has to be for me...).
Martin
>Reply-To: <jrl007@comports.com>
>From: "James Robert Lunsford" <jrl007@comports.com>
>To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Subject: Help with E-Mail
>Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 05:12:46 -0500
>
>I need help setting up mail on my debian system. I've been running
>it for about a month now. I've got the x-windows system up and running
>but this mail thing has me stumped.
>
>I've learned DOS inside and out, same for OS/2, and ran an 8 line BBS
>for 2 years, and didn't have this much trouble. I think that I'm just
>getting
>confused with all of the options that are out there.
>
>I've got smail, fetchmail, and nmh. When I installed the smail package
>dselect
>helped me through a rudimentary configuration and I told it all of the
info
>that
>I knew. At the end it sent me a test message, but it said that the
system
>wasn't
>ready.
>
>I'm lost here. I've read the docs that came with smail and fetchmail
but am
>totally confused.
>
>If someone could give me some pointers, steps to follow, or signs to
look
>for, I'd be really
>grateful. A step by step setup guide would be great. It doesn't have
to be
>incredibly detailed
>but the more the better.
>
>Thanks!
>
>
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