Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error)
Carel Fellinger wrote:
>
> Hai,
>
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:19:29PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote:
> > On Aug 16 2000, André Dahlqvist wrote:
>
> > > quiet a lot of people who seam to like using Netscape to handle
> > > their mail, and I think it's nice to give those people that option.
> ...
> > BTW, I also notice how much people use Netscape to handle
> > their mail and when I install Linux for my friends I install
> > it also, for the following convenience: you don't need an MTA
> > in your machine for the (conceptually) simple tasks of
> > receiving and sending e-mails -- it incorporates both a POP3
> > and a SMTP client in a single program.
> >
> > That is the reason why I don't install mutt for other people
> > (that might not know how to fix the problems when they
> > happen). But *if* I knew of other e-mailers with the same
> > functionality already packaged for Debian, I would consider
> > them.
>
> You could use mutt's recently build in support for POP and IMAP servers
> (or you could use fetchmail:) and use ssmtp just to send the mail (seems
> a simple program to install). But I don't see how you can do without local
> mail on a linux system, local services need to be able to send reports if
> things go wrong.
>
I second.
As a matter of fact, cron depends on exim (IIRC) on my potato-box.
This was kind of hard to understand for me (being a newbie), since
I've never used exim for anything. Now, I think I'll have a go at
doing my mail the *nix way, since exim is there for local mail
anyway.
Regards
Vitux
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