Re: Setting up console email

On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 16:30, Neoklis wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I would like to set-up email on the console (I am using
> mozilla at the moment). I would like to use the simplest
> system to setup (which means I gues no sendmail!) but have
> litlle experience of this since I have switched from SuSE
> which has a good setup tool.
> 
> I would appreciate any hints on mail transports to emerge
> and pointers to how-to set-up if available. I intend to use
> PINE as the reader as I did with SuSE.
> 
> My thanks in advance!
> 
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> 

Try ssmtp. It's a *very* simple program for use as replacement for a
real sendmail. I accepts mail and forwards it to a remote mailhub (your
isp or whatever).
You should be able to install it via 'emerge ssmtp'. Then you have to
edit the revaliases file (i think it should be in /etc/ssmtp) to your
needs. There is enough information how to do this in this file.
I don't exactly know how to set up pine to use ssmtp, but it shouldn't
be too hard to do.

David