Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

2022-12-11 Thread David Wright
Threaded to the OP, rather than a private message. On Sun 11 Dec 2022 at 18:56:24 (-0600), Greg Marks wrote: > Dear David, Thanks, but please keep replies on list so others can see solutions or join in with suggestions. Rather than appending a piece of free-standing text to the rest of the email

Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

2022-12-10 Thread David Wright
On Sat 10 Dec 2022 at 20:45:37 (-0500), pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 09:49:54 +1100 > David wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 at 19:05, wrote: > > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 20:39:34 -0600 Greg Marks > > > wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > I don't know the RFCs involved, but I'

Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

2022-12-10 Thread paulf
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 09:49:54 +1100 David wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 at 19:05, wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 20:39:34 -0600 Greg Marks > > wrote: [snip] > > > I don't know the RFCs involved, but I'm guessing they mandate or > > suggest this treatment. > > Here's a reference describing 'mb

Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

2022-12-10 Thread David
On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 at 19:05, wrote: > On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 20:39:34 -0600 Greg Marks wrote: > > In a recent instance, the body of the e-mail contained a line > > beginning with the word "From"; the sendmail program prefixed the > > line with the character ">" and a space (evidently interpreting >

Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

2022-12-10 Thread David Wright
On Sat 10 Dec 2022 at 08:24:05 (+0200), Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2022-12-09 20:39:34-0600, Greg Marks wrote: > > > > I occasionally send e-mail from the command line via Postfix, using a > > script containing the command > > > >/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f -t < file > > Is there a way to tell

Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

2022-12-10 Thread Miguel A. Vallejo
I remember some e-mail programs automatically add an extra space in front of a From in the message body if any line starts with From. Probably Thunderbird is one of them. to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 08:36:39AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [...] > > > Technically, it's th

Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

2022-12-10 Thread debian-user
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 02:57:42AM -0500, pa...@quillandmouse.com > wrote: > > You don't want to do this. Consider an MUA which stores your mail in > > "mbox" format-- one email right after another in one file. The > > delimiter is a line which starts at the left margin with the word > > "From".

Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

2022-12-10 Thread tomas
On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 08:36:39AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > Technically, it's the 5-character sequence "From " (including the space) > that matters in mbox formats. If you begin a line with "Fromage" [...] I thusly propose to drop the '>' escaping of "From" and change every From at a

Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

2022-12-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 02:57:42AM -0500, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > You don't want to do this. Consider an MUA which stores your mail in > "mbox" format-- one email right after another in one file. The > delimiter is a line which starts at the left margin with the word > "From". Technically

Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

2022-12-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > [...] any other line which starts with "From" must > be "armored". And the way you do that is to precede it with "> ". > I don't know the RFCs involved, but I'm guessing they mandate or > suggest this treatment. It does not look like being fully specified by a

Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

2022-12-10 Thread paulf
On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 20:39:34 -0600 Greg Marks wrote: > I occasionally send e-mail from the command line via Postfix, using a > script containing the command > >/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f -t < file > > In a recent instance, the body of the e-mail contained a line > beginning with the word "F

Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

2022-12-09 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2022-12-09 20:39:34-0600, Greg Marks wrote: > Is there a way to tell the Postfix sendmail command not to alter any > such lines ["From" lines] in the body of the message? I can't answer your actual question but I think Postfix and other "sendmails" do the right thing. In my opinion you shouldn'

Re: e-mail addresses not being redone

2018-05-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-05-12 09:18 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2018, Gary Dale wrote: Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 17:30:26 From: Gary Dale Reply-To: g...@extremeground.com To: debian users Subject: e-mail addresses not being redone Resent-Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 21:30:56 + (UTC) Resent-From: debia

Re: E-mail headers 101 (was: Can't find the DNS Servers)

2017-10-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 02 October 2017 06:39:00 Reco wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 06:26:08AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 02 October 2017 03:00:28 Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 07:26:30PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > > > > This is the second time I've tried to send t

Re: E-mail headers 101 (was: Can't find the DNS Servers)

2017-10-02 Thread Reco
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 06:26:08AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 02 October 2017 03:00:28 Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 07:26:30PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > > > This is the second time I've tried to send this. The first one just > > > disappeared to the bit bu

Re: E-mail Failing in weird ways

2006-06-26 Thread Mumia W.
Mike McCarty wrote: [...] she wants to import her e-mail, and her address book. We poked around with that for a while, and found what we take to be her address book (in ~/.thunderbird/.default/abook.mab, but evoloution seems unable to read/understand that. Nor does it seem to be able to import he

Re: E-mail Failing in weird ways

2006-06-26 Thread Kent West
Mike McCarty wrote: Dave Patterson wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-26 09:05:42 -0500]: Yeah, I shoulda mentioned that those had both been checked. I've sent her an e-mail asking for what (if any) error messages she gets, but I'm going to give her a phone call, as well. She

Re: E-mail Failing in weird ways

2006-06-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: > Dave Patterson wrote: >> * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-26 >> 09:05:42 -0500]: >> >> >> >>> Yeah, I shoulda mentioned that those had both been checked. >>> I've sent her an e-mail asking for what (if any) error >>>

Re: E-mail Failing in weird ways

2006-06-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Dave Patterson wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-26 09:05:42 -0500]: Yeah, I shoulda mentioned that those had both been checked. I've sent her an e-mail asking for what (if any) error messages she gets, but I'm going to give her a phone call, as well. Is she on a dialup?

Re: E-mail Failing in weird ways

2006-06-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Dave Patterson wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-26 09:05:42 -0500]: Yeah, I shoulda mentioned that those had both been checked. I've sent her an e-mail asking for what (if any) error messages she gets, but I'm going to give her a phone call, as well. Is she on a dialup?

Re: E-mail Failing in weird ways

2006-06-26 Thread Dave Patterson
* Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-26 09:05:42 -0500]: > > Yeah, I shoulda mentioned that those had both been checked. I've sent > her an e-mail asking for what (if any) error messages she gets, but > I'm going to give her a phone call, as well. > Is she on a dialup? If so, have her c

Re: E-mail Failing in weird ways

2006-06-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Kent West wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: My girlfriend uses Debian (Sarge) and has a mysterious problem with e-mail. She has been using Thunderbird for some time, but with Windows NT. She installed Sarge, and now she cannot send e-mail, but she can pull, for months now. Well, she decided to try Evo

Re: E-mail Failing in weird ways

2006-06-26 Thread Kent West
Mike McCarty wrote: > My girlfriend uses Debian (Sarge) and has a mysterious problem > with e-mail. She has been using Thunderbird for some time, > but with Windows NT. She installed Sarge, and now she cannot > send e-mail, but she can pull, for months now. Well, she decided > to try Evolution, and

Re: E-mail Failing in weird ways

2006-06-26 Thread Lothar Braun
Mike McCarty wrote: My girlfriend uses Debian (Sarge) and has a mysterious problem with e-mail. She has been using Thunderbird for some time, but with Windows NT. She installed Sarge, and now she cannot send e-mail, but she can pull, for months now. Well, she decided to try Evolution, and it has

Re: e-mail from local host

2004-05-25 Thread Luis Finotti
Thanks Magnus and Juan (again -- I owe you two!). I greatly appreciate your help. My best, Luis --- Juan Nin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you should have a FQDN hostname (fully-qualified > domain name) > the remote SMTP server rejects you connection, > because your machine > identifies itslef

Re: e-mail from local host

2004-05-24 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:56:56PM -0300, Juan Nin wrote: >From: "Luis Finotti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT >> TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> host mailv.math.ucsb.edu [128.111.88.21]: 504 >> : >> Helo command rejected: need fully-

Re: e-mail from local host

2004-05-24 Thread Juan Nin
From: "Luis Finotti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT > TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > host mailv.math.ucsb.edu [128.111.88.21]: 504 > : > Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified > hostname you should have a FQDN hostname (fully-quali

Re: e-mail notification to syslog

2004-05-18 Thread George Cristian Birzan
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:34:23PM +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: > Hi! > > Is there mail notification program which can check POP3/IMAP/... email > accounts for new mails and send the result to syslog? A bash script which uses logger can do this. Like: fetchmail | logger -- George Cristian Birzan

RE: E-Mail -> NNTP

2004-04-01 Thread Mark McRitchie
Heya, > From: Rus Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > Can anyone recommened a debian package that allows an email > list -> nntp > server for local use? Pyg looks like it will do it but just want to be > sure.. > Mailman has a news gateway built in. Never used the gateway though so can'

Re: e-mail

2003-10-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:37:14AM -0600, Gaolon O. Hall wrote: | I had to reload all of my programs including Windows ME because of | virus infection. Now I can not get my e-mail up. Neither Network | Everywhere or USB ports. What has happened? What happened was you installed Windows ME. Try

Re: e-mail

2003-10-27 Thread Paul William
This is a debian user list (we use Linux not windows). This is not an appropriate place to ask for windows help. Debian users - give this guy a break ;-) On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 05:37, Gaolon O. Hall wrote: > I had to reload all of my programs including Windows ME because of > virus infection. Now

Re: E-Mail trouble

2002-12-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
I suspect you are seeing this because lists.debian.org does not accept SMTP because RiverWillow is not a FQDN and/or is not resolvable. Bob On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > Hi, > > I am a new Mutt/Exim user and have a problem sending mail. Have successfully

Re: E-Mail trouble

2002-12-13 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:59:40AM -0600, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: | Hi, | | I am a new Mutt/Exim user and have a problem sending mail. Have | successfully sent e-mail using Mutt to another list and to an | individual. When I try to send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or | [EMAIL PROTECTED], I get the atta

Re: E-MAIL

2002-04-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trying to send an E-MAIL says user unknown, > went to postmaster help. Said disk was full. How do I clear It's something the person you're sending to will have to do. -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: E-MAIL

2002-04-19 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 07:53:05PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: | On Thursday 18 April 2002 07:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > Trying to send an E-MAIL says user unknown, | > went to postmaster help. Said disk was full. How do I clear | >

Re: E-MAIL

2002-04-18 Thread David Smead
If you're getting that message on a Linux machine, log in as root and find out what space is available on /home. I assume you do have root mounted on a separate partition. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trying to send an

Re: E-MAIL

2002-04-18 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 April 2002 07:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trying to send an E-MAIL says user unknown, > went to postmaster help. Said disk was full. How do I clear > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make su

Re: E-mail address list

2001-11-07 Thread dman
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:48:02AM +0100, Ágics Balázs wrote: | Hi all, | | I want to set up an e-mail alias. It's a list of my clients, and I want | restrict this. How can I set up that just I can send an e-mail to this | address, everybody else no? I see you are using KMail. If only you are

Re: E-mail address list

2001-11-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:48:02AM +0100, Ágics Balázs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to set up an e-mail alias. It's a list of my clients, and I want > restrict this. How can I set up that just I can send an e-mail to this > address, everybody else no? See /etc/aliases. You

Re: [users] Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:40:36AM +0800): > 1. What if multiple users on my network have set up multiple POP3 accounts in > the past (before the server was up) and wish to go this way, leaving their > mail > OFF their POP3 accounts, but ON the home server? Can this stil

Re: [users] Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-22 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach nico de haer (on Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:10:54AM +0200): > Up until writing this message i've recieved two replies to my erlier posting > "e-mail. the next level". Erik and Martin think in the same line as i do. > Carl also contributed some points of interrest. Getting mail is no problem >

Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-22 Thread nico de haer
Dear Debian Users, Up until writing this message i've recieved two replies to my erlier posting "e-mail. the next level". Erik and Martin think in the same line as i do. Carl also contributed some points of interrest. Getting mail is no problem using a tool like Fetchmail. Even multiple accounts b

Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello Niko, > > I think that this is great thing to do. I am equally curious as to how to > adopt > this on my server at home. > > If anyone has good comments on how best to do this, I would welcome the > information tremendously. > > Just 2 additional things: > >

Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-21 Thread carl . tan
Hello Niko, I think that this is great thing to do. I am equally curious as to how to adopt this on my server at home. If anyone has good comments on how best to do this, I would welcome the information tremendously. Just 2 additional things: 1. What if multiple users on my network have set

Re: e-mail, the next level

2001-06-21 Thread Erik Steffl
nico de haer wrote: ... > You have: > - Debian server (mine is called gardian) able to connect to the internet: > - Mail user agent on your client, that understands POP3 and SMTP (do you > know one that doesn't?) > - There is no permanent link to the Internet (Using a modem, thus in most > cases

Re: E-mail configuration

2001-03-17 Thread mike polniak
Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:39:34PM -0300, Hammurabi Mendes wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm having problems with e-mail configuration: when someone receives > > some of my e-mails sent from debian, the From line is the following: > > > > From: Hammurabi das Chagas Mendes <[E

Re: E-mail configuration

2001-03-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 08:39:34PM -0300, Hammurabi Mendes wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having problems with e-mail configuration: when someone receives > some of my e-mails sent from debian, the From line is the following: > > From: Hammurabi das Chagas Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (hmendes is my u

Re: E-mail

2001-01-22 Thread Bud Rogers
On Monday 22 January 2001 14:42, Colin Watson wrote: > Robert Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >i simply wanted to ask if it would be possible to get an E-mail > > like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Although debian.com exists and redirects to the right place, > debian.org is the real domain; we're not

Re: E-mail

2001-01-22 Thread Colin Watson
Robert Hentges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i simply wanted to ask if it would be possible to get an E-mail like: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Although debian.com exists and redirects to the right place, debian.org is the real domain; we're not a commercial organization. That said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] address

Re: E-mail (POP) not working

1999-12-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
This smells suspiciously like a permissions (tcpd) problem. Check /var/log/daemon.log. If tcpd is the problem then there should be a line like: Dec 8 18:11:53 chilin qpopper[28923]: refused connect from X.X.X.X Also of course have a look at /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny to see how thing

Re: E-mail (POP) not working

1999-12-08 Thread aphro
On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: baptis >Hi all, baptis >I have working in a ISP that POP stopped to work for the clients baptis >with modem. Altought I can telnet port 110 the clients with modem baptis >receive the following error baptis > baptis >Error: Your

Re: E-mail client for POP3?

1999-09-16 Thread David Karlin
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 08:38:18AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > > Another thing you can do is share /var/spool/mail, so both boxes will > > share the mailboxes. Use NFS, for example. > > may have to go that route. Sharing /var/spool/mail still puts the mail > on a box

Re: E-mail client for POP3?

1999-09-15 Thread Carel Fellinger
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Which boils down to this: fetching from the server is not a real > good solution for me. Is there a text-based email client that > uses IMAP rather than POP? Alternatively, if fetchmail had an you could consider using Pine. It's IMAP based, though not com

Re: E-mail client for POP3?

1999-09-14 Thread Kent West
Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 06:03:22AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > > > Which boils down to this: fetching from the server is not a real > > good solution for me. Is there a text-based email client that > > uses IMAP rather than POP? Alternatively, if fetchmail had

Re: E-mail client for POP3?

1999-09-14 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 06:03:22AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Which boils down to this: fetching from the server is not a real > good solution for me. Is there a text-based email client that > uses IMAP rather than POP? Alternatively, if fetchmail had an > option to fetch my messages, let me rea

Re: E-mail client for POP3?

1999-09-14 Thread Kent West
Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 04:25:53PM -0500, David Kanter wrote: > > > I use POP3 with my dial up connection, and wonder what people generally use > > as a mail client for this situation. Do people just default to Netscape? I > > was looking at Mutt, which looks

Re: E-mail client for POP3?

1999-09-14 Thread wim
Oh, also check out XFMail (there is a deb for it) at xfmail.slappy.org. Does everything you need: PGP, and the whole bit. It uses xforms, but still works very well. It's fast, does filtering, multiple folders, multiple pop/imap, etc, etc. On 13-Sep-99 Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > On Mon, S

Re: E-mail client for POP3?

1999-09-14 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 04:25:53PM -0500, David Kanter wrote: > I use POP3 with my dial up connection, and wonder what people generally use > as a mail client for this situation. Do people just default to Netscape? I > was looking at Mutt, which looks a little confusing, but seems to be somewhat

Re: E-mail client for POP3?

1999-09-13 Thread Phil Brutsche
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, David Kanter wrote: > I use POP3 with my dial up connection, and wonder what people > generally use as a mail client for this situation. Do people just > default to Netscape? I was looking at Mutt, which looks a little > confusing, but seems to be somewhat popular. Netscape is

Re: E-mail client for POP3?

1999-09-13 Thread Seth R Arnold
Well, I can't claim to know anything about mutt in relation to pop3 based email, but if it is anything like directly-connected email, you have no choice but to use mutt. :) hehe. Seriously though, if you thought elm was nice, pine a bit gaudy but liked the features, then mutt you will love. Elm us

Re: E-mail with exim tip.

1999-07-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Dieter" == Dieter Jdger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dieter> They use a perl script to rewrite outgoing mail. Now I looked Dieter> at the doc and found that option, which can be used Dieter> to make a director rewriting the address or not. My idea is to Dieter> allow rewriting for outgoing mai

Re: E-mail with exim tip.

1999-07-23 Thread Dieter Jäger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote: >There was some discussion on how to set up Exim a few days back. I found >the following article in the Linux Gazette >(http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html) and it was useful (for ... >-- Hans They us

Re: E-mail with exim tip.

1999-07-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Stephen" == Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..exim as daemon..] Stephen> Uncomment the "exit 0" line in /etc/init.d/exim. Also disable it in inetd.conf and reload the inetd config with /etc/init.d/inetd reload Ciao, Martin

Re: E-mail with exim tip.

1999-07-19 Thread Patrick Kirk
I have used this article to set up my home network and it is excellent. Clear, concise and to the point. One slight problem...I need to add and remove remote users a lot. Having all mail flushed into my account and then using a .forward entry for each user is a little clumsy. Anyone know if exim

Re: E-mail with exim tip.

1999-07-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 08:33:11PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > There was some discussion on how to set up Exim a few days back. I found > the following article in the Linux Gazette > (http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html) and it was useful (for > me at least), because of the re

Re: E-mail for dummies - part 2

1999-07-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Hans" == Hans van den Boogert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hans> So what about sending mail then? Using 'smail' sounds obvious, Hans> but how does the route from MUA to the SMTP server go. The MTA you install receives the mails you send using your MUA and sends them to the destination. Either

Re: E-mail for dummies - part 2

1999-07-05 Thread scode
> qmail and fetchmail are MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents), right? qmail yes, fetchmail maybe, depending on your definition of an MTA. > fetchmail downloads messages from a pop3/imap server and puts them into the > local mail delivery system. (Besides, where do the messages end up and in > what form?

Re: E-mail for dummies - part 2

1999-07-05 Thread Bill Leach
Exim does permit header manipulations including rewrite.

Re: E-mail for dummies - part 2

1999-07-05 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:03:19PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > Thanks for the response guys. Sofar I understand that > > qmail and fetchmail are MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents), right? > > fetchmail downloads messages from a pop3/imap server and puts them into the > local mail delivery s

Re: E-mail for dummies - part 2

1999-07-05 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 10:03:19PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > > I've installed fetchmail and exim, but haven't had time to read the man > pages. Does anybody have a good way to convert man pages into readable > ASCII text, so I can print them out and read them off-line? (The purchasing >

Re: E-mail for dummies - part 2

1999-07-05 Thread Greg Baker
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > qmail and fetchmail are MTAs (Mail Transfer Agents), right? > > fetchmail downloads messages from a pop3/imap server and puts them into the > local mail delivery system. (Besides, where do the messages end up and in > what form?) Correct so far.

Re: E-mail for dummies.

1999-07-05 Thread Ted Harding
On 04-Jul-99 Pollywog wrote: >> > Mahogany is new, and still has some bugs, but I like it. > > I am still using xfmail but want to move to Mahogany as soon as some of > the little bugs are fixed. Thanks for the reference. I just tried mahogany. Nice GUI, and clearly going somewhere. I didn't stu

RE: E-mail for dummies.

1999-07-04 Thread Christian Dysthe
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 e

Re: E-mail for dummies.

1999-07-04 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Jul-99 Lex Chive wrote: > If you dont have a permanent connection to the internet the best way I know > of > is to use fetchmail. fetchmail will fetch (hehe...) the messages on your ISP > (or your mail account wherever it is) and delivers them locally. Then you > can > either have your mail

Re: E-mail for dummies.

1999-07-04 Thread Lex Chive
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 09:43:06PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote: > 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? (Ple

Re: e-mail questions

1998-03-18 Thread shaul
Try looking at exmh and xmail to have a nice X front end. fetchmail may be used to bring the mail from your ISP. > I am using a modem and ppp to login to my ISP. What is a good setup for > e-mail??? Currently I use NS4's e-mail but it is a little buggy and > crashes often. I would like to have

Re: e-mail questions

1998-03-18 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 18:54:35 EST, Shaleh wrote: > I am using a modem and ppp to login to my ISP. What is a good setup for > e-mail??? Currently I use NS4's e-mail but it is a little buggy and > crashes often. I would like to have a nice X front end. I currently > recieve between 250 and 350 e-m

Re: e-mail questions

1998-03-18 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Shaleh wrote: > I am using a modem and ppp to login to my ISP. What is a good setup for > e-mail??? Currently I use NS4's e-mail but it is a little buggy and > crashes often. I would like to have a nice X front end. I currently > recieve between 250 and 350 e-mails a day a

Re: E-mail server setup

1998-02-06 Thread tko
eugene mendoza writes: > > I'm trying to setup a email server on linux box which > has sendmail ver 8.6.12. > I've a subdomain of my own. > What is the simplest way of doing this? > The email will be stored on the linux server > which will also be a name server and provide other > services. > Much

Re: E-Mail Setup Question - new server

1997-05-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Kevin Traas writes: > 1. The accounts on vnet will have to exist on hicks before hicks will > accept e-mail for those users, right? Not necesserily. You may install them as follows in /etc/aliases joey: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wuschel:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ...

Re: E-Mail Setup Question - new server

1997-05-01 Thread Rick Jones
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > 1. The accounts on vnet will have to exist on hicks before hicks will > accept e-mail for those users, right? Yes. You have to set up the accounts first. > 2. What problems might I have with incoming mail? i.e. If a message was > addressed to [EMAIL