email help

[Bill vance]

On 10/15/12, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 16/10/12 15:50, Bill vance wrote:
>> Howdy folks;
>>
>> I've just upgraded to Kubuntu 12.04, and need a little setup help.
>>
>> My ISP, (Comcast), requires smtp authentication.  Setting up sendmail
>> seemed
>> pretty confusing.  So I got with the repositories, and downloaded some
>> alternatives, i.e., esmtp, msmtp, and exim4.  Things are still confusing,
>> and
>> exim4 seems to have taken over from sendmail.  Looking into openssl/tls
>> doesn't seem to help either.
>>
>> I used to have an email package that did this by just setting up some
>> variables
>> with my name, passwd, "smtp.comcast.net", and a port number.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me how to get all this working with the least fuss and
>> bother?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>
> The first and obvious question is: which mail client do you intend to
> use - Thunderbird or something else?
>
> BC


My email prog of choice is Alpine.

Bill