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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!portc02.blue.aol.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!news From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: email clients... Date: 27 Dec 1996 13:58:42 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 43 Message-ID: <5a0kmi$9bc@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <32C321D3.1DFF@javanet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.136 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 To: harpo@javanet.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33351 In article <32C321D3.1DFF@javanet.com>, John Szumowski <harpo@javanet.com> writes: > Are there any email clients available for textmode? I have netscape > working just fine in X (although i'm using 95 now...) with a smtp > server. I tried pine, but i could never get it to connect, so i zapped > it. I had "domainname: javanet.com" (forget the exact op) and "smtp > server: mail.javanet.com". However, this didn't help, and pine never > seemed to check with the server. If it helps, i have a dynamic ip > address at a dial-in account. You may have a situation similar to mine. My ISP uses both SMTP and POP. Pine will use SMTP to *send* mail, but it doesn't know anything about POP yet (same with a number of other mail packages). What I've done is setup popclient as a cron job to periodically poll the server for new incoming mail and stuff it into /var/mail/$LOGNAME. Works fine. This is also a great way to "keep alive" a connection! :-) Or, if you've setup ppp on demand (with proper timeout setting), you can have your system check for new mail at any time (whether you're already connected or not). Connect, login, grab whatever's waiting, then have the ppp timeout disconnect you (a short timeout works best in this case, of course -- say, a couple of minutes). > Are there alternative packages that might do the job out there? > thanks. If you're running X, you may want to look into exmh, an *amazing* mail tool based on MH, written in Tcl/Tk. I just started using it about a week ago, and it's without a doubt the coolest mail app I've ever tried. See http://www.smli.com/~bwelch/index.html. > (also...an unrelated question. i recently installed the color_xterm > package and lost my Xaw3d scrollbars. any hints for how to get them > back?) Ummm... :-) -- Conrad Sabatier | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |