I was a Linux email newbie a few months back. What has brought me a good solution is a combo consisting of exim/fetchmail/XFmail. If I were you I would start out with XFmail on it's own. This email client is very simple to set up. It does what you expect a normal GUI based email client to do with ease. You will be able to receive mail in minutes! The only problem is that it doesn't do delivery and POP3 fetch in the background, so if you do a lot of mailing, and have a lot coming in, you will have to wait for the client to finish delivery/fetch before being able to continue your work.
When you know how XFmail works you can add on fetchmail and exim which will fetch and deliver mail from your ISP in the background. XFmail can easily be configured to deal with mail managed by these two programs, which means you can "grow" into a more and more sofisticated solution without having to switch email client, convert mailboxes or other complicated adjustments. All these programs are packed and easily installed and configured for Debian. fetchmail has a GUI front-end for setting it up. exim has a script called "eximconfig" that will have it working for you quite easily (sendmail is much harder to deal with!), and XFmail has built in help and is VERY intuitive to use. I do tons of email daily as part of my work, and this combo is fast, safe and secure and very versatile without having to learn tons of key bindings and config file syntax. Good luck! :) On 04-Jul-99 Hans van den Boogert wrote: > Sofar I'm quite happy with Linux, Debian and the documentation. If you read > all you can find on the subject, use your senses and experiment a bit you > can always get done what you want. > > However, for me the one thing that still remains a mystery is the setting > up of a mail system. I'm used to telnetting and Pine to read my mail, but > now with a stand alone machine, a ppp connection to my ISP I just can't > understand how the whole setup works. I've read the NAG and MailHOWTO, but > both were written in such a way that I can't find no head nor tail. > > Could someone please post a quick mail-system setup for dummies? As said, I > simply want to connect to my ISP, collect/download my mail and read it in a > browser-like X program like Mahogany. What is the principle setup? (Please, > explain a bit!!!) What programs do I best use for what? What do these > programs do? How do they interconnect? What is the sequence of collecting > and sending mail? > > Is there any other on-line documentation besides the NAG and MailHOWTO? I > have lots of time to read, much less to work on my system :-( Thanks for > the help. -- Hans > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > > > ----------------------------------- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux ----------------------------------- "Clones are people two"
