Using Alpine

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Karl F. Larsen wrote:

>
> 	I have of course on Ubuntu Hardy alpine which looks and acts just like
> pine. It came up talking about things but not about a "MTA". I have no
> idea what an MTA is so please explain in detail. It talked about the
> alpine config file and where to get help.

Karl, do you have any idea of what a search engine is much less how to 
use one? Why do you expect to be spoon fed "in detail" no less?

>
> 	It sounds like Ubuntu has no MTA and we need it if we want to use
> alpine. I recall back then that pine uses /var/mail/karl/ and it still
> does today on Ubuntu Hardy. What I do not recall well is how do we get
> alpine to send and receive email like Thunderbird does right now?

Did you read my previous post?

>
> 	It seems to me it took sendmail to send and receive over the Internet.
> Could this in fact be the case?

No.

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