On Nov 4, 7:06 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Raschke) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Nolan Hamilton > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can somebody give me instructions on > > 1. How can I can configure mail? ( and do not just redirect me to the > > wiki page on it.) > > :-) > > Do you mean reading mail or setting up a mail server? For the former, > the easiest is to use Mail inside of Acme. Not sure if this is the > latest greatest way to do it, but this is how I've done it for the > past four years and a bit. > > In your lib/profile you will want to start upas/fs . > > You can then open a mailbox on a remote IMAP server like this for > example (this will use factotum to prompt for your password): > echo 'open /imap/your.imap.server/your.username local.box.name' > >/mail/fs/ctl > > And in Acme use "Mail local.box.name" to start the mail reader. > > > 2. How can I read newsgroups on plan9? > > Hmm, can't seem to get to the contrib stuff on sources just now, so > here's how I do News for myself:http://www.tombob.com/plan9/ > > Robby
Thanks alot, people in comp.os.plan9 are much more polite then in comp.os.vms.
