on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:54:59AM +0200, Axel Schlicht (axel.schlicht@mail.isis.de) wrote:
> With a new ISDN card installed I can now - finally - switch over to
> Linux for email and news retrieval.
>
> I need a program / programs able to to the following:
> - retrieve email / newsgroups automatically or (definitely preferred)
> whenever I fell like retrieving them.
> - consecutively contact serveral mail servers and news servers, some of
> them requiring autentification.
> - sort incoming e-mail (and , hopefully) usenet news into several
> directories according to the mailing list / sublist they came from,
> sender or any other ciriterion.
> - keep Japanese, Korean and other asian emails on the respective server
> as I don't know how to read AND answer them using Linux. If anybody
> knows a solution to this, please share it with me.
>
> I do not want to use netscape or any other monster with severely limited
> abilities.
There's also Mozilla.... Or emacs/xemacs, both of which provide access
to mail and news. I don't care for Mozilla, but am going to take a look
at emacs/xemacs for a while.
> As far as I know I should have the following to receive and send emails
> and participate in usenet newsgroups:
> - ISDN for Linux
> - a mail retrieval program : fetchmail ?
Yes.
> - a mail transport agent (MTA) : procmail ? exim ?
Exim is a transfer agent. Postfix is another reasonable alternative.
> - a mail reader : tin, mutt ?
Mutt. Hands down.
> - a news reader ?
I use tin, slrn is roughly comperable. Neither really agrees with me.
Mutt has a patch which allows it to be used as a newsreader. This is
now debianized, though not included in the main Debian archive. I'll
probably have it installed in the next couple of days.
> Am I correct so far. Would you accept the suggestions above (suggestions
> I once received from unix users).
>
> As far as I know, Debian prefers exim as an MTA. Should I stick to this
> or use procmail?
Procmail is an MDA, mail delivery agent. You use this to filter your
email. It's a bitch to set up and learn, but very powerful. This is a
different role than an MTA. Essentially:
Sender
| {Net} {Net}
|
+-------+ +--------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+
| MUA |===>| MTA |===>| POP |===>| Fetch-|===>| Proc- |
| (mutt)| | (exim) | | server| | mail | | mail |
+-------+ +--------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+
|
|
Recipient
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