On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:33:07PM -0500, Bela Bartok wrote: > ... I am looking for a email client that ONLY uses imap or pop3 for > sending and reciving, like netscape or mozilla mail but that can be > execute without X-windows.
There is no way too 'send' mail via pop3. I think you might be getting confused by that a bit. Even in Netscape, you need to specify an 'outgoing' server. That is just the way internet email works. > I dont like to use my local sendmail!!! Try setting up exim. It is pretty easy to setup for offline users. Mutt relies on an external program to send it's mail to an smtp source. That external program can be whatever you want. it doesn't have to be send mail. > console X-windows > nestcape lynx > wordperfect vi/ee/pico > netscape-mail what goes here?????????HELP! To echo the response of another, You might want to look into pine. Pine has built-in support for all this stuff. You can specify an SMTP server without having to setup exim or sendmail to send for you. You can setup a source to retrieve imap mail from. That seems to be the solution you are looking for. Mutt may not be the mailer for you right now. I started out on pine, as it was easier to set up for me at the time. I switched to mutt though after I learned more about basic system administration, etc. You might feel pine constrictive after a while, then again, you might not. :) That is why there is more than one mailer out there! good luck! /db
