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by **Doctor Benw** » Fri, 01 Dec 1995 04:00:00

I have PPP and chat and all that up and running. I can ftp, telnet,
finger, surf the web, whatever i want. The three things i can't do
are IRC, email, and newsgroups. Do i have to install Sendmail to
simply read and write mail and such? I don't need a fullscale
router--I have no domain and this is a single-user PC. the HOWTO's
don't seem to directly address this problem. Suggestions, anyone?
BTW--I dl'ed IRCII and found that it was the wrong end's software. Do
i have to go to all this trouble?

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by **John S. Gibbar** » Sat, 02 Dec 1995 04:00:00

Quote:> I have PPP and chat and all that up and running. I can ftp, telnet,
> finger, surf the web, whatever i want. The three things i can't do
> are IRC, email, and newsgroups. Do i have to install Sendmail to
> simply read and write mail and such?

You can use Pine for email and the newsgroups. Just
go into the config menu and put in the address for your PPP
host's mail and news servers. Then you will need to set up
popclient to receive mail if your host uses POP.

I'm not sure about the sendmail daemon. I do have
one running here, which was installed automatically by
slackware, and I am not about to try disabling it to see
if I really need it or not. <G>

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