Using Alpine

[Karl F. Larsen]

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	I have been going over my old cd-rom's and find I still have one of
Slakware 3.3 which has files of July 1997 or earlier. Here is what it says:

This directory contains the primary Slackware packages -- the ones that
actually install files to your hard drive.  You can install these packages
with "setup", "pkgtool", or "installpkg".  See the man pages (man
installpkg)
for details.

Share Slackware with your friends!  Just use the quick and easy disk
mastering utility in this directory, and you can make installable
3.5" Linux disk sets.

Have fun!

	So that was how it was then. I think you had to get pine from the
university even then.


	I have of course on Ubuntu Hardy alpine which looks and acts just like
pine. It came up talking about things but not about a "MTA". I have no
idea what an MTA is so please explain in detail. It talked about the
alpine config file and where to get help.

	It sounds like Ubuntu has no MTA and we need it if we want to use
alpine. I recall back then that pine uses /var/mail/karl/ and it still
does today on Ubuntu Hardy. What I do not recall well is how do we get
alpine to send and receive email like Thunderbird does right now?

	It seems to me it took sendmail to send and receive over the Internet.
Could this in fact be the case?


73 Karl




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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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