[sllug-members]: Fetchmail localhost error

[Jared Bernard]

On 3/22/07, Lamont Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 22 March 2007 08:29am, Jared Bernard wrote:
> > On 3/21/07, Ken P <kprims at kgab.org> wrote:
> > > Jared Bernard wrote:
> [snip]
> > I thought Fetchmail was a MTA?
>
> Nope.  It's a special client that feeds an MTA.
>
> > I guessing it's not. Do I need to set up
> > Sendmail?
>
> Well, you don't *have* to set up Sendmail.  You could use any MTA that you
> wanted to.
>
> If you are already highly experience with Sendmail, then it might be the
> way
> to go.  If not, I would recommend going with Postfix instead.  It's *tons*
> simpler to administer, has a much better security track record than
> Sendmail
> and runs much better than Sendmail (I've seen Postfix handle more than 3
> times the load that Sendmail could on identical systems).
> --
>
HOLY COW!! What have I gotten myself into. Let me see if I can get this
straight.
First I need a MTA (sendmail, postfix, exim, qmail, etc), which basically
graps my emails from the server to my local system. Then I need a MUA
(fetchmail, etc) which 'processes' my emails on my local system and then
finally I need an email client (pine, mutt, etc) to read my emails.

Is this right? What is the benefit of this type of set up, over just using
thunderbird, evolution, kmail, which seems to have each of these qualities
rolled up in one?

Here is what I want to do and maybe I can get some suggestions as to the
*easiest* way of going about it.

I want to use pine as my email client with 2 accounts (a csolutions account
and gmail). I like pine and I don't 'get' mutt. I like the speed of the
non-gui client, and it's my preference. Both accounts are POP3 but work off
different ports (csolutions uses the standard 110, 25, while gmail uses 465,
995). I should mention both use ssl. My end ojective is to view and manage
both accounts in pine. What is the easiest for a novice like me to set up
and manage? How do I go about it or where do I find the information to set
this up?

I've tried to google this info, but there seems to be so many different
ways, configurations, standards (IMAP, POP3) and applications (MTAs, MUAs,
clients) out there that I can't seem to narrow down a solution to fit my
situation. And everyone seems to have there own opinions about which is
best. I guess this is the good and bad of Linux and OSS which is that there
is so many ways to do things. That's why I use Linux for the freedom of
choice that I have, but in this instances it seems like information overload
and I know it's because I don't fully understand the technology of how email
works. I just know what I have and what I want to do.

Any insight?

Thanks,
jared
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