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<PRE><FONT SIZE=3>Ron,</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3> Yes, there is a way to do that. BTW, questions and answers are what
this group is all about ;-) It isn't at all like the GUI you may be
used to, but you can do your mail (less the graphic inserts, bells and
whistles etc) from the command line with /bin/mail. You can find out
about how to use this by opening a command shell and typing "man mail"
without the quotes. The mail reference manual is also available on
line at: </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3> <A HREF="http://132.239.50.3/offerings/userhelp/HTML/mail.refman,d.html">http://132.239.50.3/offerings/userhelp/HTML/mail.refman,d.html</A> </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3>I seldom use the command line apps for my personal mail, although I
find them extremely handy in shell scripts. Knowledge of how to read
and send mail from a command line is useful for other tasks though. I
had occasion to get a list of names from a file on a Sun Server at work
recently. I needed to get this list to my desktop pc so I could answer
an e-mail and include the list. The server didn't have a floppy drive,
or a GUI mail app. Solution: "cat filename | /bin/mailx -s "file of
names" <A HREF="mailto:ben@work">ben@work</A>." That took all of a few seconds to run and I got
exactly what I needed out of it. Meanwhile, our M$ MCSE was calling
all over trying to figure out how to do this... I quietly left her to
her devices and went about my business... </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3> I don't know if your version of Linux has other mail applications
installed, but you may wish to investigate the kmail, xmail, Elm, Mutt,
Netscape, and StarOffice mail applications. (You already mentioned
pine.) Mail is also available in the emacs editor if you prefer that
once you set it up. You can find info on the emacs mail interface at: </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3><A HREF="http://www.cis.ksu.edu/Systems/Info/gnu/vm.Top.html">http://www.cis.ksu.edu/Systems/Info/gnu/vm.Top.html</A> </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3>(I know this is not an exhaustive list of mail apps, and I have
probably left out some good ones, so check around and see what everyone
else suggests, try a few and pick one or 20.) </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3> At the risk of generating some discussion on the list, I'll also
suggest that you can use "fetchmail" to get your mail from a
pop-server. Find out about fetchmail at:</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3> <A HREF="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/">http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/</A> </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3>This will end up storing your mail on your hardrive in
/var/spool/mail/$USERNAME directory (unless you specify it to go
somewhere else.) From here, you can use /bin/mail to read it without
having to fool with the pop-server from the command line because
fetchmail did that for you already. For that matter, you can use just
about all the mail apps I listed above to read mail stored in your
system tree except for StarOffice. I haven't figured out why the
authors of StarOffice did not include that capability, all I know is
that it isn't there. </FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3>Hope this helps,</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3>Good Luck,</FONT>
<FONT SIZE=3>Ben </FONT>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 11/6/01, 10:00:25 PM, Ron Honda <ron308linux@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
regarding [luau] e-mail:
> Sorry to bother the thread, but could anyone tell me if there's a way
to
> send and retrieve e-mail from the command line. I have been able to
send
> using pine, but don't know how to configure the pop-server part. Is
there
> another program that I should be using? Is it safe to use these mail
> programs? I have been messing with Linux for about two years, but
mostly in
> the graphical modes. I am not able to grasp most of conversations
take place
> on this thread because I don't understand all the technical stuff. If
anyone
> can help, thanks.
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