Reading System Mail

Itay Furman fedora at itayf.fastmail.fm
Fri Oct 7 12:36:40 UTC 2005


On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Bob Chiodini wrote:

> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:07:31 -0400
> From: Bob Chiodini <rchiodin at bellsouth.net>
> Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Reading System Mail
> 
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 05:56 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
>> Good Morning Everyone:
>>
>> One of my fedora systems has started notifying me that I have new mail
>> waiting for me,  this system does not have external mail set up, so I
>> know that it must be some form of system mail.  In the past I have
>> installed webmin, and used that to read the mail, is this the best way
>> to go, or is there a better way to get it?  Someone suggested pine,
>> however the install is choking on a missing library which I cannot seem
>> to find in yum (libldap.so.2)  I can initiate a search for that library
>> via some of the online sources if pine is indeed the best way to go, but
>> I would like to know what the best way is before I dedicate the time to
>> tracking it down
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> TIM
>>

Pine is the only mail/news client I have ever used -- and I like 
it a lot.

How did you try to install?  Pine is available via yum on 
Livna.org;  I guess that the needed library will be there, too.

 	Itay





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