Re: email program for newbie

2000-06-21 Thread Brad
Whatever you use, make sure you send plain text messages to this mailing list instead of HTML-formatted like Kent West did ;) I'd recommend taking the time to learn mutt. You can get a hold of the basic features quickly, you can use it with your favorite editor (many prefer vim), and it has much p

Re: email program for newbie

2000-06-20 Thread Colin Watson
Stephan Engelke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Marshall paul writes: >> _weeks_ to configure X. OK, I can surf, now, but I want email, too.) > >if everything fails, there's always /usr/bin/mail or /usr/bin/mailx. >Console based Mailers include mutt and pine. Pine is quite straight >forward to use, e

Re: email program for newbie

2000-06-20 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 05:20:10PM -0700, marshall paul wrote > Hi, > > I have been plodding through the Debian woods, taking one thing at a > time and eventually getting small successes. However, I am tired and > would like to set up email for a dialup single user machine. Would > someone

Re: email program for newbie

2000-06-20 Thread Kent West
marshall paul wrote: Hi,     I have been plodding through the Debian woods, taking one thing at a time and eventually getting small successes.  However, I am tired and would like to set up email for a dialup single user machine.  Would someone recommend a mail program to start out with?  (The

Re: email program for newbie

2000-06-20 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi, Marshall paul writes: > _weeks_ to configure X. OK, I can surf, now, but I want email, too.) if everything fails, there's always /usr/bin/mail or /usr/bin/mailx. Console based Mailers include mutt and pine. Pine is quite straight forward to use, epecially if you are not accustomed to the v