Re: Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends

1999-08-30 Thread Marc Mongeon
If you're only interested in retrieving your POP mail from your ISP account, and sending mail out to the Internet (i.e., no local delivery to machines on a home network), then the only thing you need to configure is Netscape Mail. In your Netscape preferences set both your incoming and outgoing ma

Re: Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends

1999-08-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 02:53:01PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >A Debian specific one: when installing from discs one is presented > >with a nice package that allows you to install various components > >like mice and CDROMs and such. Is that tool still accessible after > >you've ins

Re: Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends

1999-08-29 Thread Oliver Elphick
"Barry Rueger" wrote: >A couple of quickies as well: I gather that there are configuration >files for most of the things that I've installed. Is there a convention >for naming these (like ending them in .conf), and where are they >likely to be kept? Config files are named however the s

Newbie - Mail question and other odds and ends

1999-08-29 Thread Barry Rueger
Wow - linux is not for the faint of heart. After a number iterations of deselect I have both Xwindows and netscape happening. I have to say that dselect seems to be pretty good at keeping track of what has and hasn't been installed, and making sure that it gets fixed the next time around. Th