linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Two users on one computer

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Two users on one computer

Good afternoon
Thank You for Email and Help.
Do Aug 29 18:36:00 2013

Am 14.08.2013 11:37, schrieb Cameron Simpson:> On 14Aug2013 09:23,
highskywhy@yahoo.de <mailto:highskywhy%40yahoo.de>
> <highskywhy@yahoo.de <mailto:highskywhy%40yahoo.de>> wrote:
> | | > Yes. I use mutt myself, also text based.
> | | *
> | | Is there a homepage with a detailed manual for mutt?
> |
> | www.mutt.org
> |
> | I was reading:
> | Mutt doesn't talk smtp
>
> No longer the case.
*
Thank You.
Is there a new manual?

>
> | Is there a textbased software
> | for
> | pickup emails pop
> | and
> | send emails smtp.
>
> Yes to both.
*
Thank You.

>
> Firstly, if you fetch mutt-1.5.21 from http://www.mutt.org/download.html,
> unpack it and run:
>
> ./configure --help
*
OK

>
> you'll see it has many optional parts. Running configure with the
> --enable-smtp option will make the built mutt capable delivering
> email directly with SMTP.
*
OK
>
> Likewise there are --enable-pop and --enable-imap for fetching
> email, and many other options. Also, the versions of mutt shipped
> with most Linux distributions will be compiled with many of these
> options turned on.
*
Ok
>
> Therefore, Scott's instructions for SMTP setup will probably work
> for the mutt that comes with your Linux distribution.
*
Ok
>
> However, mutt was originally written to live in a larger ecosystem,
> and many of us do not use its pop or smtp features directly.
*
What does mean directly?

>
> Instead, we run a separate program to collect email, usually using
> POP. Programs such as fetchmail and getmail are common choices for
> this. I run "getmail" regularly to collect my email and deliver it
> to my "spool" folder. (And run a mail filing program to move messages
> out of there into various mail folders for various lists etc.)
>*
So
to use other programs than mutt is common?

What is the most easy software for:

software www.mailsme.org idme passwortme pop
and all emails are in one directory.

And:
software www.mailsme.org idme passwortme smtp send to
neighbour@emailad.org file:mywords.txt

(every email send one line in terminal)

So this would be an easy email way.
Isnt it?

> Likewise, we do not always send email directly using SMTP with mutt.
> If you're a "client" user then SMTP is a natural choice, but it
> doesn't work when you're offline (nowhere to deliver your email).
*
Ok
>
> Instead, we run a real mail system on our machines: exim, postfix,
> qmail and sendmail are the common choices here. Your Linux system
> will come with one of these preinstalled (but not very configured).
>*
Ok

> _All_ of these provide a command called "sendmail" whose purpose
> is to accept an email message and queue it in the mail system. Mutt
> (by default) expects to send messages that way. The mail system
> itself will take care of delivery. This has the advantage that you
> can compose and dispatch messages while offline, and not worry. The
> mail system will catch up when it is next online.
>
> Of course, this still leaves you with the need to configure the
> mail system for SMTP; the default will expect to do direct delivery,
> and most consumer ISPs do not permit that these days; they expect
> you to deliver to their SMTP server.
*
Thank You for the long description.

Regards
Sophie