-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-04-23 at 14:39 -0400, ken wrote:
It is simpler to use the command line "mail" coupled with a local mta to send email. I would have that running in minutes, probably. I call that simpler. :-)
True, it would take no time at all for me to point-and-click my way through a Yast install, but there's generally some tweaking of config files needed. I already had nail installed; the challenge was just setting up the config file properly.
Normal sending can be configured by Yast. It works out of the box, or almost so.
The more difficult part is setting up the SSL encryption. This would require configuring saslauthd also. As said previously, the version of
No, no. Sending is simple, no key generation is needed. Receiving is complicated (relatively), but you don't have to configure it.
nail/mailx packaged with my suse distribution didn't do this either, so I had to download and compile a more recent version. This took only a couple minutes.
Not the only way, agreed.
And it's always good to know more than one way to accomplish something.
True enough. ...
it done with "nail", but I would have to study the manual and test it... so you'd better study it yourself than me, don't you think? ;-) Maybe they have a mail list or a FAQ.
It's already done and tested and working fine.
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