Q: Best PPP dial-up console mail app?
Hi, I have a 56k dial up using pon and poff and was wondering which of the console choices would allow me to fetch and dl mail? Also write off-line, then log on and send. Mutt and Pine I have heard about. The ability to filter into assorted folders (like for mailing lists) would be a necessity. This for a single account. Much thanks, Jonathan
Re: Q: Best PPP dial-up console mail app?
I use a combination of mutt, fetchmail and procmail. Mutt for reading and composing, fetchmail for pop retrieval and procmail for filtering. When you compose and send mail in mutt while offline it still goes into your smtp send queue. Just issue the command to send queued mail when you re-connect. That command depends on what you are using for smtp. * Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] [15Oct00 18:18 +0200]: I have a 56k dial up using pon and poff and was wondering which of the console choices would allow me to fetch and dl mail? Also write off-line, then log on and send. Mutt and Pine I have heard about. The ability to filter into assorted folders (like for mailing lists) would be a necessity. -- -=[Ty]=- =oo
Re: Q: Best PPP dial-up console mail app?
Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, I have a 56k dial up using pon and poff and was wondering which of the console choices would allow me to fetch and dl mail? Also write off-line, then log on and send. Mutt and Pine I have heard about. The ability to filter into assorted folders (like for mailing lists) would be a necessity. This for a single account. Mailreader: A quick examination of the 973 mails I've received on the debian-user list so far shows that 399 were composed by Mutters so if you'd like to..hurler avec les loups, use mutt ;) Filtering: Exim is already installed for you and set up to use procmail as its local postman. All you need is a .procmailrc in your home directory with rules on what folders you want to filter your messages into. How to go about that has been discussed on this list today. Look at some of the previous threads. Writing offline, logging on and sending: Can be accomplished in more than one way; in addition to the answer you've already received you can also configure your pppd setup to use demand dialling (use pppconfig to set it up). Once you dispatch your message from within Mutt, Pine whatever, a connection will be established automatically and your message will fly off to its destination. Fetching mail: Use fetchmail. There is a GUI to facilitate the configuration. Good luck, Morten -- Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. (Robert Benchley)
Re: Q: Best PPP dial-up console mail app?
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:46:11AM -0700, thus spake Tyrin Price: I use a combination of mutt, fetchmail and procmail. Mutt for reading and composing, fetchmail for pop retrieval and procmail for filtering. When you compose and send mail in mutt while offline it still goes into your smtp send queue. Just issue the command to send queued mail when you re-connect. That command depends on what you are using for smtp. * Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] [15Oct00 18:18 +0200]: I have a 56k dial up using pon and poff and was wondering which of the console choices would allow me to fetch and dl mail? Also write off-line, then log on and send. Mutt and Pine I have heard about. The ability to filter into assorted folders (like for mailing lists) would be a necessity. Hopefully you have Exim as your mail transport agent. Fetchmail to fetch the mail down from your ISP's server (the gui configurator is a mixed blessing.) Procmail, invoked by Exim, to sort the post into folders, destroy duplicate messages, send out automated replies and geenrally to be it's gorgeous self. And the wonderful Mutt to read the post, compose new mails etc. (Using your favourite editor!) It can be fun configuring procmail and mutt. Try this site for a very fully commented .procmailrc and .muttrc which you can use, having made appropriate alterations. Nothing fancy but a good start. http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/~hobbit/cave.html Here is an extract from Martin Holland's Noether Linux Pages on fetchmail - may help. Fetchmail configuration The best way to collect your mail from your ISP is with fetchmail. To configure it you need to create a file /root/.fetchmailrc looking like this: set postmaster marge set no bouncemail poll pop.freeserve.net proto pop3 localdomains simpsons.freeserve.co.uk envelope Envelope-to no dns timeout 60 username simpsons.freeserve.co.uk password to * here This file is appropriate to version 5 of fetchmail so if you have trouble with an earlier version consider upgrading. Make sure that this file has the correct permissions with chmod 0600 /root/.fetchmailrc otherwise fetchmail won't run (and this protects your password from casual inspection). HTH Glyn M -- ** * The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
