on Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 11:06:58PM +0200, Harald Iwe (harald.iwe@broadpark.no) wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm running a standard Potato 2.2r3 and trying to set up the Netscape > Communicator Messenger as an easy mail interface for my wife (must be > easy to use (point and click), handle MIME, clickable URL's, etc. (I > use gnus myself, but she WANTS mouse interface....)) Consider Mozilla instead -- Netscape's horribly unstable. Otherwise, usability issues are largely similar, though there are other good mail clients: sylpheed, aileron, and mutt ;-) > To download mail from my ISP I'm using fetchmail, and exim is working > alright as MTA delivering the mail into /var/mail/<username>. > > In Communicator->Preferences->Mail&Newsgroups->Mailservers how do I > tell it to just read from /var/mail/<username> ? I think you just point to the folder and don't use any of the remote server options. It's been a while. > I can choose between IMAP POP and MOVEMAIL. Since fetchmail takes care > of downloading from my ISP IMAP and POP don't seem right to me. Could > the built-in MOVEMAIL be used or should I specify some extern > application ? Not sure. > And what should I specify for "Outgoing mail (SMTP) server" ? exim ? I'd use exim, which could be configured to smarthost through your ISP (required if your ISP firewalls outbound port 25 connections) or for direct delivery. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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