Re: Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-22 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 03:08:49PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > > > You can't. Period. Same goes for source. Same goes for commercial > > binaries. Same goes for any code you haven't read (or had someone you > > thoroughly trust read). > > Agr

Re: Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-21 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 03:08:49PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > You can't. Period. Same goes for source. Same goes for commercial > binaries. Same goes for any code you haven't read (or had someone you > thoroughly trust read). Agreed. However, the classic statement on the subject is eve

Re: Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-21 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, hogan wrote: > I go to this site, download the .deb's .. How can I be sure they're not > malicious. You can't. Period. Same goes for source. Same goes for commercial binaries. Same goes for any code you haven't read (or had someone you

Security - trust etc.. (Was: Reading e-mails on text mode)

2000-08-21 Thread hogan
erson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ricardo Gabriel Herdt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 3:10 AM Subject: Re: Reading e-mails on text mode > You can go to the web site <http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine> and > download Pine as a .deb

Re: Reading e-mails on text mode

2000-08-21 Thread John Anderson
You can go to the web site and download Pine as a .deb file. Pine is very self explanatory. in the setup menu select config then if you have a dialup connection put your isp name in the option. If your ISP uses pop3 put {isp name/pop3}inbox under .

Re: Reading e-mails on text mode

2000-08-21 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Ricardo, there is a step by step in LG (http://www.linuxgazette.com) last month. In short, use: . fetchmail to get mail (install fetchmail and fetchmailconf to configure it) . exim to deliver it to /var/spool/mail (use eximconfig) and . mutt to re

Reading e-mails on text mode

2000-08-21 Thread Ricardo Gabriel Herdt
Debianers, Could you send me information to explain step-by-step how configure, fetch and read e-mails on text mode, like for example, using mutt. Or, at least, indicate me where to find information about this. Thanks, Ricardo G