I am having trouble getting mail and news working.
I connect to my ISP over PPP. I have a POP mailbox, the userid of which is
nothing to do with the userid I want to use on my machine. I ran netscape
communicatior, and it worked, but it was unstable.
What do I do to get mail and news? Do I need to run a transport client to
download what I want, and then run a user client? I'd like to use an X
interface. I installed postilion, but it doesn't appear to do much. I tried
"setting up a POP folder" but nothing much appeared to happen. How do these
things manage the fact that I want to download the contents of
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" from mail.bigpond.com, but that the "reader" of these
messages will be "p" on my local machine?
What do I install? What do I run? In what order? Netscape seems to do
exactly the right thing: but it crashes and I don't like its editor. In any
case, it's tainted with a windows origin and I'd rather go for pure linux.
And how about news? Offline browsing and posting? Netscape communicator for
linux seems to have no "download for later viewing" facility in news at all
(another indicator that their linux offering is not of the same standard as
their windows version). Do I run a news fetcher/receiver (as root) to get
the news, and then have a news daemon running to serve it up to clients on
localhost? If so, is there a news fetcher with a spam filter?
