email help

[Basil Chupin]

On 16/10/12 17:56, Bill vance wrote:
> 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.

I've never heard of it until now, so good luck :-) .

BC

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