email help

[Basil Chupin]

On 16/10/12 15:50, Bill vance wrote:
> Howdy folks;
>
> I've just upgraded to Kubuntu 12.04, and need a little setup help.
>
> My ISP, (Comcast), requires smtp authentication.  Setting up sendmail seemed
> pretty confusing.  So I got with the repositories, and downloaded some
> alternatives, i.e., esmtp, msmtp, and exim4.  Things are still confusing, and
> exim4 seems to have taken over from sendmail.  Looking into openssl/tls
> doesn't seem to help either.
>
> I used to have an email package that did this by just setting up some variables
> with my name, passwd, "smtp.comcast.net", and a port number.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get all this working with the least fuss and bother?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bill
>

The first and obvious question is: which mail client do you intend to 
use - Thunderbird or something else?

BC

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