Hello Axel, * Axel Schlicht wrote:
> With a new ISDN card installed I can now - finally - switch over to > Linux for email and news retrieval. > > I need a program / programs able to to the following: > - retrieve email / newsgroups automatically or (definitely preferred) > whenever I fell like retrieving them. fetchmail for mail and fetchnews (belongs to leafnode) for news. > - consecutively contact serveral mail servers and news servers, some of > them requiring autentification. same. > - sort incoming e-mail (and , hopefully) usenet news into several > directories according to the mailing list / sublist they came from, > sender or any other ciriterion. procmail is a very good mailfilter. > I do not want to use netscape or any other monster with severely limited > abilities. Very good. > As far as I know I should have the following to receive and send emails > and participate in usenet newsgroups: > - ISDN for Linux or capi4linux if you bought a AVM-ISDN-card and wants to send a fax sometimes. > - a mail retrieval program : fetchmail ? yes > - a mail transport agent (MTA) : procmail ? exim ? procmail is not a mta. there are many other MTA's out there qmail,postfix,smail ... , but I prefer good old sendmail. > - a mail reader : tin, mutt ? tin is a newsreader. There are GUI's, too like Tkrat, Kmail, Balsa, Xfmail, Postilion ... But mutt is the best ;-) > - a news reader ? I prefer a patched version of mutt, because i like it so much and don't read news very often, so i don't want to learn another fine program. ¹ > Am I correct so far. Would you accept the suggestions above (suggestions > I once received from unix users). > > As far as I know, Debian prefers exim as an MTA. Should I stick to this > or use procmail? I would try sendmail, but I think exim do the same work. > What else do I need. I think a cryptography program would be very useful, if you want to sign and/or encrypt your mail. I prefer Gnu Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org By the way it works great in combination with mutt. There are some good procmail rules to have a better compatibility with broken MUA's. > Any help will be gratefully accepted. > If you prefer not to answer in English pleae feel free to use any of the > following languages (alphabetical order): Danish / Norwegian, Dutch, > French, German, Italian, Japanese. wow, german would be good. > Many thanks in advance. no problem. > Please try to answer to the list only my 2 euro and sorry for my bad english, but I want to learn it by using it. cya Waldemar P.S: the right signature at the moment ¹ I've make deb's of mutt-nntp, too # Packman unstable deb ftp://ftp.links2linux.de/pub/packman/debian/ unstable/i386/ deb-src ftp://ftp.links2linux.de/pub/packman/debian/ unstable/src/ # Packman stable deb ftp://ftp.links2linux.de/pub/packman/debian/ stable/i386/ deb-src ftp://ftp.links2linux.de/pub/packman/debian/ stable/src/ Version 1.3.17 -- * Best MUA in the world: | (o_ * * http://www.mutt.org | //\ * * Linux rulez! ;-) | V_/_ * * GnuPG-Key: 0xBE21BD90 | Tux: #155220 | ICQ: 64035650 *
