Posted by Dave Kelly on 03/24/06 00:33

noone wrote:
> Dave Kelly wrote:

> (from the command line type: man mail)
This is what I did at 8 this am when I got out of bed. I typed 'apropos
mail' and read everything to do with mail. At 12:30 I posted this my
message and went to lunch.


>> My linux system seems to not have any shell email applications compiled
>> into the kernel.

> Those are not compiled into the kernel. What Linux do you have, and how
> did you install it. All of the installs I have seen install some email
> client such as Mozilla Email client (POP3/IMAP) and ALL unix
> environments have 'mail'

I did not say that right, let me try again.
Last fall I was working on a script to generate a report and mail it to
several people around the world. I tried to use 'mail' but kept getting
errors. I finally found way down in '/var/spool/Mail/Mail' a statement
saying that accessing remote hosts had not been compiled into the kernel.
>
> If you have a web server running - you can always search for PHP POP3
> MAIL and come up with something like:
> http://www.thefreecountry.com/php/emailclients.shtml

If I had found these on my own, I would have rejected them because to me
there is a difference between a web mail client and an e-mail client.
Am I correct in my thinking on that?

Perhaps if I explained what I am trying to accomplish you would better
understand my needs.

I am using paypal for customers to pay for goods purchase in my eStore.
Paypal sends me an email -Notification of payment- for every purchase.
I have code that will extract the informatin from these messages to
write the invoice and print mailing labels. I just need to manage the
messages as they come off of my ISP. 'procmail' will do that.

I just want something that doesn't do anything to the screen, goes to
my ISP, issues a user and passwd and gathers up the message that are in
a special email account. I don't need address book, spam filter, or any
other bling bling.

And finally,
Thanks for your reply.
Dave

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