Re: E-mail for dummies.

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 04-Jul-99 Lex Chive wrote:
> If you dont have a permanent connection to the internet the best way I know
> of
> is to use fetchmail. fetchmail will fetch (hehe...) the messages on your ISP
> (or your mail account wherever it is) and delivers them locally. Then you
> can
> either have your mail server (exim, if you used the defaults) handle them,
> or
> use a MDA like procmail to deliver them. For example, using procmail, I
> have:
That's right.  If you use Exim, you probably don't need procmail.
> Once it has been delivered locally you can use any mail client to read it
> (mutt, pine, I guess Mahogany would work too although I never heard of it
>
Mahogany is new, and still has some bugs, but I like it.

I am still using xfmail but want to move to Mahogany as soon as some of the
little bugs are fixed.

--
Andrew