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LSA
03-13-2004, 01:58 AM
I put in my pop, smtp, and username in pine and I can revice messages fine, but when I try to send something it doesn't work most of the time. Yesterday I was trying it out and tried to send a test message to my hotmail account (could of been down :rolleyes:) and I never got it so I tried my yahoo account and it came in today

I can send messages in Evolution fine, I think my isp is using Squirel mail if that matters at all

It also reports my adress wrong, it shows my linux account not my email account name...

Am I missing something stupid? I read a few FAQs and they didn't say anything about it... :helpsmile:

:stupid:

shn
03-13-2004, 02:06 AM
Pine for n00bs (http://www.umbc.edu/pine.html)

Man pages which you already have. (http://www.washington.edu/pine/man/)

LSA
03-13-2004, 02:49 AM
Originally posted by shn@12 March 2004 - 20:06
Pine for n00bs (http://www.umbc.edu/pine.html)

Man pages which you already have. (http://www.washington.edu/pine/man/)
I read them before I came here, I always read docs first if I have a problem. If there's one thing i've learned in the 5-6 months of using linux it's always check the docs.

I kept looking and found this, but it didn't work (restarted pine) http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/docs/faq/ep20.html

I'm going to try a reinstall tomorrow, it was complaining about I didn't have ssl and I did, so I got an upgraded one and a whole bunch of programs wanted the existing one...

Good night :frusty:

shn
03-13-2004, 03:43 AM
It's really not that serious since there are an abundance of mail apps for Linux. Try mutt (http://www.mutt.org/) , you should have it installed.

Most people do not even use pine, let alone attempt to reinstall it once they find out how crappy it is.

I did not know pine came with a gui. Or are you attempting to go command line now?

Grab a shell account from here (http://rootshell.be) and use pine all you want.

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LSA
03-13-2004, 03:26 PM
I am just trying different apps, I didn't like evolution because it seemed kind of bloated. I think there is a gui for pine, but I wasn't using it.

Like I said before I do read the docs...<_<

shn
03-13-2004, 04:30 PM
Originally posted by LSA@13 March 2004 - 09:26
I am just trying different apps, I didn&#39;t like evolution because it seemed kind of bloated. I think there is a gui for pine, but I wasn&#39;t using it.

Like I said before I do read the docs...<_<
Calm down LSA.

I was just pullin your leg. :P

LSA
03-13-2004, 04:52 PM
:lol:


I was checking on mutt, and found a FAQ


How can I make Mutt use a SMTP server to send email, like Pine or [insert favourite Windows-based email client here]?

answer from Mikko Hänninen
You can&#39;t. Mutt is a MUA (Mail User Agent), not a MTA (Mail Transport Agent). Other email programs include MTA functionality but the Mutt way is to use the proper tool for each task, instead of making a giant program that does everything. In short, it&#39;s not Mutt&#39;s job to get the mail to a remote SMTP server.

If your system does not have a properly configured MTA such as sendmail for Mutt to use, and you only need one to send all emails to a remote SMTP server for further delivery, then look at Sven&#39;s list of small MTAs at http://www.guckes.net/mta/ .
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Why is pine bad? It seems ok, if I could get SMTP working right. :book: :unsure:
But I do like that mutt uses VI to compose :w00t: