Re: [PLUG] Configuring Mutt or another email program

[John Beck <jbeck@jbwd.net>]

Bill,

You're right -using Netscape would definitely be much easier for me to set up
/ use.  My only questions is, can GnuPg/PgP still be used with Netscape?  I
just downloaded and installed the GnuPg program this afternoon, and sent
Darxus my key and he was able to post it the keyserver for me.  Was that all
in vain?  :-)  Please excuse the ignorance if its blatently obvious, but I am
still learning as I go with most of this stuff, including the GnuPg program!

Thanks!

Bill Jonas wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:31:36PM -0400, John Beck wrote:
> > My question is, what mail program is recommended for me to use (mutt and
> > pine are installed, though I have never used them.  I am open for other
> > options though).  Also, once I figure the mail program, how do I
> > configure it using the info I have (incoming mail server, outgoing
> > server, news, and all my id's and passwords)?
>
> If you like Netscape Mail, that's available under Linux, too.  That
> might be your best bet, at first.  Mozilla's mail client is similar to
> Netscape's.  (Three-pane view, etc.)  You can configure Netscape Mail
> for Linux in the same way that you do for MS Windows.
>
> I'm fond of mutt, myself.  In order to use something like mutt, you'll
> need to either have a shell account on the machine that receives your
> mail or run fetchmail (or similar) and a mail transport program (like
> sendmail, or similar).  Pine is more newbie-friendly (I think it does
> POP3 and SMTP, but I could be mistaken), but it has license issues (I
> can provide a URL if you're interested).  OTOH, mutt is much more
> powerful, and if you like GnuPG/PGP, it has integrated support.  The big
> win for using fetchmail or one of its kin (or reading your mail from
> your shell account) is that you can set up mail filtering with a program
> like procmail.
>
> Of course, these aren't the only three mail clients out there.  KDE and
> GNOME each have their own mail clients, and there are a host of others.
> (Search http://freshmeat.net/ with search terms like "mail client" if
> you're interested.)  There are many mutt configuration files available
> at http://www.dotfiles.com/, too.
>
> --
> Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *    http://www.billjonas.com/
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