> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Bleichert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gary Schenk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:41 PM > Subject: Re: newbie mail help > > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Gary Schenk wrote: > > <major snippage>
> > I've used lots of email clients and Pine is my favorite. However, I had > the same problem you are. First I solved it by setting up postfix to do > it for me (fix the return address). Then I found I could specify the > headers in the pine configuration. Go to the setup section of pine (while > it's running) and setup up headers as I did: > > customized-hdrs = Reply-To: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > That should clear it up. As I said earlier in this email chain, to just > plain old 'get going' with email in Unix it's best to use e.g. Netscape > or Mozilla mail or kmail as they work like the usual email clients. Most > other Unix clients rely on the system mail to function properly which can > make them tuff to set up if say your username on the box doesnt match > that at your ISP. > > Hope that helps. I don't know balsa, never used it, but in my first > several years in Linux/BSD I clung to my Netscape email like a liferaft > :) > > JB > > # John Bleichert > # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg OK, I stopped being so mule-headed and when doing a fresh install, setup KDE this time. As John suggested (twice!) kmail is working great. Setting it up was quick and easy. No sendmail needed or fetchmail. This is great. Thanks to all in the group for helping. @^_^@ <-- one happy former Outlook Express user I will try to setup Pine for mail with postfix at sometime. Anyone have any suggestions for a newsreader for KDE? Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
