I think ( I may be wrong ) that Netscape doesn't use sendmail. I thought it had it's own built in MUA and MTA? Is this correct? This may be the source of your confusion. Using netscape all-in-one and you don't have to know about the specifics of mail. :-) sim Michael Hicks wrote: > Shawn <fertch at mninter.net> wrote: > > > > 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. > > Sendmail is not meant to be used by humans. When sending a message > through Sendmail, there isn't any interactive editing capability, and it > provides no facility for reading messages. It's just meant to be used by > mail client programs when they send messages. > > Anyway, if you want a text-based mail client, the two recommendations are > usually for mutt and pine. If you want a good graphical client, join the > club ;-) Actually, Sylpheed is getting pretty good. Last time I checked, > Evolution wasn't able to compose new messages (at least on my system, so > same difference), so it's not a great choice right now, IMHO. > > -- > _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ I eat swiss cheese from > / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ the inside out. > \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) > [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list