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[sindi keesan <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>]

> I installed Elm on BL2 and it runs "out of the box" (no dependency
> problems).  However I have been unable to use it because it relies on
> sendmail, fetchmail, MTA's and the sort of technical things I have yet to
> figure out.  I was kind of hoping I could fetch popmail with it like I do
> with Pine and Mutt.  If one knows how to configure all that stuff, Elm
> should work fine on BL2, though.  I think Pine would encounter dependency
> problems since it uses SSL libraries, as I recall.  Maybe Mutt would have
> similar problems.  I have not tried either of the former on BL2, though
> I'd like to try out Pine.  Pine does either IMAP or POP3.

I had to install some sort of SSL library to get Lynx working.
Does Pine also send mail via SMTP besides fetching it with POP3?  

I thought BL2 was already set up with sendmail and fetchmail as part of
the mail program.  Not that I understand how it works.  

Sindi


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> James
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