Hi, I'm confused.  Nice to meet you...  Just smack me upside the head please.

 Everyone talks about using Pine, or other text based mail programs.  I was just
curious as to how the text based mail programs relate and tie in with web
browsers.  Maybe it's just easier for me to use Netscape mail still.  what I'm
looking at though is to be able to get mail outside of my browser so I don't have
to run netscape in the background.  That's where I was thinking of using sendmail,
besides it's already installed.  Maybe Pine would be a better option?  Or, Bob had
talked about one that acts like Lookout.


Confused.

dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu wrote:

> Well, although you can send mails with sendmail, I think you're confusing
> an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) with an MUA (Mail User Agent).  Sendmail is an
> MTA and is primarily used for actually sending emails.  Netscape Mail,
> mutt, pine are examples of MUAs and are used to compose a message and
> modify mail headers and such.  An MUA passes a composed message to an MTA
> to be sent out.
>
> I could be confused as to what you're asking, but your question is itself
> confusing :)
>
> Gabe