Getting mail and browsing the web
Some newbie questions:
I am in the process of getting a dialup account to work in my new
& first ever install of Linux, slink. I think I'll find it easier
if I have an overall picture of how it is done -- especially how
it is already set up in the install I have. I have been reading
howto after howto, but it is still hard to see how it all works
on this particular distribution.
I have managed to get to my ISP
Mail
I use wvdial and I think I am connected -- I don't know how to
unconnect though :) -- is wvdial just a script that invokes chat
and pppd? What is pppd?
Nor can I do any thing once I am connected - what I have tried is
to load mutt, if it could get mail I am not sure how to tell it
to.
Do I have this right: mutt does not get the mail, fetchmail
does. I have not managed to get that running.
Do I have this right: fetchmail wont work on its own, it needs a
Mail Transfer Agent and Debian uses exim (does that stand for
anything? -- extract internet mail???) In addition I need
procmail going to sort the mail.
In summary I should be able to get my mail if I am actually
getting to the ISP using wvdial, exim is invoked at that point, I
have fetchmail and procmail working, and learn the commands in
mutt?
A confirmation of that would be encouraging -- or corrections. I
know there might be many other ways, I'd like to hear those
too... but this is the sort of classical Debian default way, is
that right?
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Web
I have Lynx running but hitting the red urls does not work unless
the file is local.
Is it just a matter of configuring a file somewhere?
Walter
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Walter Logeman walter@psybernet.co.nz http://www.psybernet.co.nz
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