Carel Fellinger wrote: > > 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. > I second. As a matter of fact, cron depends on exim (IIRC) on my potato-box. This was kind of hard to understand for me (being a newbie), since I've never used exim for anything. Now, I think I'll have a go at doing my mail the *nix way, since exim is there for local mail anyway. Regards Vitux
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