[svlug] e-mail beginer q

[Abhijit Dinkar]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, CervantesVive wrote:

> hi,
> 
> thanks for the answer. if it isn't much of a bother and you can spare a
> few keystrokes, what do gui clients like messenger have that console
> ones do not that allow it to retrieve and send mail?

a gui.
;-)

> 
> i'd like to understand this for my own knowledge.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> C
> 
> J C Lawrence wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 10:16:39 -0700
> > CervantesVive  <Cervantes_Vive at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > this is a fresh 6.1 install on a standalone machine. i do not need
> > > to install sendmail for mail handling do i?
> > 
> > You are going to need to install a local MTA.  Sendmail is one, but
> > also one I'd recommend avoiding.  Have a look at Exim
> > (http://www.exim.org/) or Postfix (http://www.postfix.org/).
> > 
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