Faisal rearranged electrons thusly:
> add multiple pop3 accounts. But if you're on a dialup, you might be better
> off running fetchmail. But beware, some versions of fetchmail are broken, so
The 5.x versions (those that come with rh 6.2 and above) are definitely not broken.
> pick up the latest if possible. It also comes with a nice config tool called
> fetchmailconf.
Its not bad at all, but configuring fetchmail is not rocket science :)
> If you want to be able write as different mail originators, then you can
> still use kmail. By default, in the mail composotion window, the 'From' field
> is off. You can turn it's visiblity on, and edit the field for individual
> mails that you want to send off from different 'profiles'
KMail has one major hassle - it doesnt set the envelope sender as far as I'm
aware. That will break trying to post to lists, which verify the sender
envelope (what comes into the MAIL FROM: of the [E]SMTP transaction)
Mutt doesnt have any hassles :) Try xterm -e mutt (or download the mutt rpm
from http://mutt.linuxatwork.at - that contains a couple of shell scripts xmutt
and cmutt - attached - which work great on X and a console).
-s
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
#!/bin/sh
#
# xmutt - script to start mutt in a terminal window under X
# Thomas Ribbrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, April 2000
#
# published under GPL
#
# try rxvt first
which rxvt > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
rxvt -tn rxvt -T Mutt -e mutt
else
# try xterm next
which xterm > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
# with xterm, the correct setting for TERM is not so clear,
# so we leave it to the cmutt script and hope for the best...
xterm -T Mutt -e cmutt
fi
fi
#!/bin/sh
# cmutt - script to call mutt after setting TERM to an appropriate value
# Thomas Ribbrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#
# published under GPL
# set TERM so that an ncurses linked mutt will use colours
# If COLORS has a defined value, we assume that the appropriate TERM
# value was set before => don't touch (thanks to Thomas E. Dickey for this!)
# If it isn't set or is set to -1, no colours are defined and we try to
# set a different TERM value.
#
COLORS=`tput colors 2>/dev/null`
if [ -z "$COLORS" -o "$COLORS" = "-1" ] ; then
if [ -n "$COLORTERM" ]; then
# COLORTERM is set => assume rxvt
TERM=rxvt
else
# we guess some kind of xterm
TEST=`tput -Txterm-xfree86 colors 2>/dev/null`
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
# xterm-xfree86 is known here
TERM=xterm-xfree86
else
# not known - we try xterm-color
# NOTE: xterm-color might have the wrong bce capabilities!!
# The linux console, rxvt and the XFree86 xterm have bce, while
# xterm-color doesn't, so this is really last resort.
# (thanks again to Thomas E. Dickey!)
TERM=xterm-color
fi
fi
export TERM
fi
exec mutt "$@"
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