Hai, On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:19:29PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Aug 16 2000, André Dahlqvist wrote:
> > quiet a lot of people who seam to like using Netscape to handle > > their mail, and I think it's nice to give those people that option. ... > BTW, I also notice how much people use Netscape to handle > their mail and when I install Linux for my friends I install > it also, for the following convenience: you don't need an MTA > in your machine for the (conceptually) simple tasks of > receiving and sending e-mails -- it incorporates both a POP3 > and a SMTP client in a single program. > > That is the reason why I don't install mutt for other people > (that might not know how to fix the problems when they > happen). But *if* I knew of other e-mailers with the same > functionality already packaged for Debian, I would consider > them. You could use mutt's recently build in support for POP and IMAP servers (or you could use fetchmail:) and use ssmtp just to send the mail (seems a simple program to install). But I don't see how you can do without local mail on a linux system, local services need to be able to send reports if things go wrong.
