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 Veil Gluck! -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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