RE: HOWTOs for the new newbies [was: procmail and kmail]

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

Internet connection is another howto - this is specific to getting mail 
running once on the 'net. Since there are links to the Owen Synge kppp page 
from the site this is needless duplication. The wvdial man page & 
wvdialconf are good enough for all but the most hard-of-thinking. Comment 
about ~/.fetchmailrc understood - it's difficult be more precise without 
actually giving real values. Also, a fetchmailconf-howto would involve lots 
of screenshots -  a bit byte-heavy. Ideally I want to keep this a text-mode 
howto.

Scripting - wvdial users may have problems as it does not seem to run 
/etc/ppp/ip-up. kppp etc will run scripts after connect so this is not a 
problem.

This is a work-in-progress, feedback appreciated. Relevant sendmail hack in 
the next version....

On Monday, February 21, 2000 10:49 AM, Richard [SMTP:richard [at] sheflug.co.uk] 
wrote:
> Paul
>
> I think a howto is a good idea but your own version needs a few
> changes so that MS Windows users can understand what you're on
> about......
>
> >Step 1:	Get internet connection sorted - use wvdial, run >wvdialconfig 
and plug your details into /etc/wvdial.conf.
>
> I think you should also mention....  X-WVdial, Gnome PPP,  Kppp and X-
> ISP.
>
> >poll mail.myisp.co.uk with proto POP3 user "username" there with 
>password "mypassword" is linuxusername here options keep fetchall
>
> I can't begin to uinderstand what to put into fetchmailrc from
> looking at this ?
>
> >Usually sendmail will put in the "from" line
> ><username> [at] <hostname>. You can change this to, say,
> >"user@mydomain.co.uk".
>
> I've no idea what this is about.  What is it that should change ?
> (exactly)
>
> >Now for your mail reader. Pine is my favourite - menu driven, fast,
> >easy to live with. Again, with most distributions it should work
> >with no configuration at all, since it uses sane defaults.
>
> Pine isn't easy to configure at all.  It's at least as bad as Lookout
> Express.  I have to admit that no one has yet explained to me how to
> set up Pine and so far I can't use it because no one will explain
> wether it's sendmail or fetchmail or Pine that isn't properly
> configured.
>
>  >type "fetchmail" to download your mail  from your isp Type
> >"sendmail -q" and your queued mail is sent to your isp for
>
> I do not intend to start typing things into a terminal window when I
> connect to an ISP.  Either the ip-up script does it for me or I'm not
> going to use the internet from home.
>
> Thanks :-)
>
>
> Richard
> Sheffield UK
>
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