email help

[Bill vance]

Many moons ago, there was Elm, (Electronic Mailer), which has been dying a
long slow death, though some have been trying to resurrect it.  The
University of
Washington came out with it's own version, Pine, (now Alpine).  Then there was
Mutt, and a bunch of wannabwees.  These all operate in the console window,
not in a GUI.  Both Alpine and Mutt are in the repositories, should you want
to look them over.  Mutt is buggy as all getout, but Alpine is excellent.

This has nothing to do with properly setting up ssl/tls/smtp auth, which is what
I need help with.  *sigh*

Bill



On 10/16/12, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 16/10/12 17:56, Bill vance wrote:
>> On 10/15/12, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> My email prog of choice is Alpine.
>
> I've never heard of it until now, so good luck :-) .
>
> BC
>
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