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

["Richard" <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

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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