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I just wonder if there's a decent Mail Client under console(No X-window)
environment.  I know two of the most notable MUAs are mutt and pine. But
the former requires a MTA on localhost while the latter supports POP
only in on-line mode.  I want a qualified MUA with both POP(off-line
mode) and SMTP-auth(no MTA needed on localhost) enabled.

Anybody here can give me some points? TIA.

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Leslie Jackson

If you really need to have the capabilities in the mail client, I
know it can be done by mine, which is Gnus inside of Emacs, but
that's not worth learning emacs for if you don't do so already.

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> If you really need to have the capabilities in the mail client, I
> know it can be done by mine, which is Gnus inside of Emacs, but
> that's not worth learning emacs for if you don't do so already.

Any other choices?

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Leslie Jackson

:> I just wonder if there's a decent Mail Client under console(No X-window)
:> environment.  I know two of the most notable MUAs are mutt and pine. But
:> the former requires a MTA on localhost while the latter supports POP
:> only in on-line mode.  I want a qualified MUA with both POP(off-line
:> mode) and SMTP-auth(no MTA needed on localhost) enabled.
:>
:> Anybody here can give me some points? TIA.

: It's probably easier to use fetchmail and any mail client you want.
: You do need to have an MTA, but then, you already *have* sendmail.

Yes, but fetchmail delivers to sendmail on the local machine, or am i
in error? I know it can retreive in a batch file, but this is basically
unusable. If the problem is only to suppress listening on the smtp port,
then it is easy to achieve with postfix. Only comment in master.cf
#smtp     inet  n       -       n       -       -       smtpd
Also one can configure fetchmail to deliver to a special instance of
sendmail, that is without sendmail running.
fetchmail -m "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -f \%F \%T"

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Michel TALON

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:>
:>> I just wonder if there's a decent Mail Client under console(No X-window)
:>> environment.  I know two of the most notable MUAs are mutt and pine. But
:>> the former requires a MTA on localhost while the latter supports POP
:>> only in on-line mode.  I want a qualified MUA with both POP(off-line
:>> mode) and SMTP-auth(no MTA needed on localhost) enabled.
:>>
:>> Anybody here can give me some points? TIA.
:>
:> It's probably easier to use fetchmail and any mail client you want.
:> You do need to have an MTA, but then, you already *have* sendmail.

: The problem is that i'm using modem to be connected to the NET.  I have
: no static IP or qualified Domain Name.  

What's the problem? Sendmail or Postfix can cope with that very easily.
They can send all mail to your provider automatically.
For postfix you need
relayhost = [parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr]:25
for example.
You can define a transport table to transport through uucp and so on.

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: Leslie Jackson

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Michel TALON

Unless I have read your request wrong, or I am grossly
mis-informed, mutt has full functionality for POP, (offline)
and even IMAP (obviously, online) and mutt does not
always need a MTA on the local host.

Cheers
/Dave

Fetchmail acts like a pop3 (or whatever) mail client so far as the
outside world is concerned, then delivers the mail locally using
sendmail. So it is ideal for the situation you describe. If you set it
up to run every N minutes while you are conected it feels as though
you are getting mail delivered the way you would with a fixed
connection.

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To get mail:  fetchmail (as others have recommended).

I'm not sure if ssmtp works with SMTP-auth, but I imagine there may be
some small program that can work with auth-smtp (for mutt) - check the
mutt-users archive.

Alternatively, you should be able to do this with Postfix; just
configure it as a null-client. See the Postfix FAQ for some sample
configurations that may help. Doing it with Sendmail shouldn't be too
hard either...

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