* On 25 Jan 2013, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from horseriver: > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 02:17:27PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > * horseriver <horseriv...@gmail.com> [01-25-13 13:24]: > > > > Would mutt call default mail delivery agent when startup? > > > > > > mutt reads mail > > > mda delivers mail > > > mta transfers mail > > > > > > fetchmail gets mail, is a mda > > Why are you not reading the suggested documentation? Patrick's advice > is spot on. All of your questions so far are easily answered by the > suggested docs.
I hope this will be my only meta-post on this thread, but I think there are two critical flaws with the hard-nosed RTFM response: 1. synthesizing the information among multiple sources of documentation can be difficult. I have no reason to think that horseriver hasn't read the docs; only that he doesn't possess the big picture (yet). Oftentimes this integration of facts into understanding is best provided by other people, and a support mailing list is a good place to ask for that. 2. While you find these questions occupying space in your inbox wasteful, I find non-answers wasteful. If all you have to say is RTFM, do it privately. Doing it in public does not add anything to the public body of knowledge. > No, mail is an MUA just like mutt. Now, you're becoming annoying. At > a terminal, do this: > > xman -notopbox -bothshown & > > That's a pointy-clicky interface to the manpages. Now PLEASE read > some documentation! "Pointy-clicky", really? People may become annoying, but one can remain polite instead of imputing attributes which you find mockable. I've spent considerable time being an ass on mailing lists, and I'm a much happier person since I've (largely) given it up. -- David Champion • d...@bikeshed.us
