----- Original Message ----- From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gary Schenk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:53 AM Subject: Re: newbie mail help
First, thanks to Mike, Giorgos, Scott and others for trying to help. > On 2003-01-20 16:32, Gary Schenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am attempting to use Pine with fetchmail and sendmail over a cable > > modem to my ISP. > > > > There is some basic setting that I am unaware of. I now can send > > mail and newsgroup messages out over the internet, but the return > > address is incorrect. It uses my pc account login ID, gschenk, as > > the left side of my address instead of my ISP account name of > > gwschenk. Where is this configured? It doesn't seem to be setup in > > .pinerc or .fetchmailrc. Is it in sendmail somewhere? > > You should add (or mofidy appropriately) the following to your > .pinerc file: > > feature-list=allow-changing-from > default-composer-hdrs=From: Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > To:, > Cc:, > Bcc:, > Attchmnt:, > Subject: > Did that. When I send test mail Pine still gives the wrong return address. > The allow-changing-from feature allows editing of the From: header for > all outgoing messages when enabled, and the default-composer-hdrs sets > some of the headers for your outgoing messages to reasonable defaults. > <snip> > > How do I know I have a port 25? > > How do I know it is listening at port 25? > > Use sockstat(1). > > $ sockstat -l4 | grep :25 > root sendmail 445 4 tcp4 *:25 *:* Yes, sendamil is listening on port 25. <snip> Mike has suggested that Pine does not need fetchmail. That makes sense. In the Pine man pages it says c-client is used to access mail severs. I cannot find help for c-client. Nor do I find a place to tell Pine about my ISP's pop3 server. In chapter 25 of FreeBSD Unleashed it states that fetchmail is needed for mutt and Pine. I chose to install Pine because I believed it to be a beginner's program. I tried to setup Balsa, and no matter what I place in the settings preferences I can't get it to work either. It seems a simple problem. I have mail on my ISP's pop3 server. I want to retrieve it and read it. "Get this there and bring it here". It seems simple, but how do I tell FreeBSD to do this? This is incredibly frustrating. Not just for me, I've gotten email from another beginner who can't get his mail to work either. Perhaps this is a question for the documentation project? Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
