On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:03:19PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
> Thanks for the response guys. Sofar I understand that....
>
> qmail and fetchmail are MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents), right?
>
> fetchmail downloads messages from a pop3/imap server and puts them into the
> local mail delivery system. (Besides, where do the messages end up and in
> what form?)
>
> Then exim (Mail Delivery Agents) delivers the mail to local users (I
> presume in /home/username) after which the MUA (Mail User Agents, like
> XFMail or some other marvel).
>
> So what about sending mail then? Using 'smail' sounds obvious, but how does
> the route from MUA to the SMTP server go.
>
> I've installed fetchmail and exim, but haven't had time to read the man
> pages. Does anybody have a good way to convert man pages into readable
> ASCII text, so I can print them out and read them off-line? (The purchasing
try man -t <manpage> | lpr
to print a manpage to your printer. (man man gives more complete details).
> of a notebook is still in the pipeline, so printing will have to do for now
> :-)
>
> -- Hans
Mike
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