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Read e-mail
Intruduction
E-mail is one of the largest and popular applications of the internet. The primairy support channel of FreeBSD exists of a large nummer of mailling lists. I found the support I got from other users very helpfull when I was new to this OS. You need to be able to sendmail if you like to use this great service. On this page I'll talk about how to configure FreeBSD to read mail.
At this point I like to point you to two related articles incase you where looking for those. The first all about howto retrieve e-mail using pop3 and the second about howto transfer e-mail using sendmail.
Mutt E-Mailer
Afther you have completed the previous sections and have confirmed it works, its time to install a mailer. Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems. You can install it by executing as root:
cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt/ make config && make install && make clean
By copying my muttrc you configure Mutt to look like the next screen. This also learns Mutt to look for the mboxes set in the procmail section.
Final notes
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