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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Pmail Basics
  • Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:02:22 -0600

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 05:48:41PM -0800, Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> Mutt is an MUA. It doesn't send mail to a mailserver or retrieve
> mail from a popserver.

Mutt, starting from a certain version (by now a fairly old version),
communicates with pop
and imap servers. So it's not true that it won't retrieve mail from a
popserver--at least if
we're talking about a version say, 4 years old or less. But it does not do
smtp, that's
true. I'm using esmtp to send mail using Mutt, and msmtp is another option
for a
stripped-down program for sending, as you've mentioned. I don't know if esmtp
has libc6
dependencies though.

Pine might be a good choice for you, since it can communicate with both
pop/imap servers as
well as smtp servers. I wrote up some directions for installing and
configuring it under
BL2, and those could probably be easily adapted to BL3. Steven used to have
those directions
among his FAQ material on BL2, but I'm not sure those directions are still
available. The
package(s?) I used came from Slack 7.1, but I'm just sure Pine would be in
Slack 4.0 as
well. Might be worth looking at.

I actually prefer to use Pine, but it was having some trouble fetching
certain e-mails so I
switched to Mutt (on my Ubuntu system). A new version of Pine is due out very
soon that is
pretty much a rewrite from the ground up, though it keeps the same basic
interface. Handles
unicode and does other things Pine can't. It's called Alpine, is released
under the Apache
license and is still in beta.

James




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