Using Alpine

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 
>> 	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.
> 
> Karl, do you have any idea of what a search engine is much less how to 
> use one? Why do you expect to be spoon fed "in detail" no less?
> 
>> 	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?
> 
> Did you read my previous post?
> 
>> 	It seems to me it took sendmail to send and receive over the Internet.
>> Could this in fact be the case?
> 
> No.
> 
	An MTA is also called in some places a smtp demon, is things like
sendmail and exim4 on Ubuntu Hardy. I looked at the man exim and
decided, as they say is the case, that exim is based on sendmail. The
man page proves it.

73 Karl


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