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To: E. Charters who wrote (115)	10/26/1998 8:39:00 AM
From: Mitch Blevins	Read Replies (1) of 484

Until you sort thru everything, a good mailreader is the one build into netscape. You don't need fetchmail or sendmail. It will directly communicate with the ISP and probably solve your problems. For single user mode, the only advantage of fetchmail/sendmail is that you have a buffer... you can send mail when the ppp link is down, and it will be stored in a queue until the link comes up. You can fetch mail in the background while the link is up but you don't have your mail reader opened. The setting for the 'From' field is in the mail reader and not in Sendmail. It should be self-evident under Netscape (under Edit->preferences), but I don't use Pine so I'm not sure how to set it up under that. I use mutt for a mail reader. It is a text-based one like Pine, but mo'betta IMHO. You should be able to (with a recompile) set up either mutt or Pine to communicate directly with the ISP without the intervention of fetchmail/sendmail. About the mail running together... there are two popular formats for storing mail. The older MH format, where each mail message is kept in a seperate file, and the mbox format, where all the messages are kept in one big text file (with some type of seperator line). I believe that both Pine, netscape, and mutt use the mbox format by default. Maybe Pine got confused about which line was being used as a seperator? Anyway... for easy to set up with mime support out of the box, Netscape mail is the way to go. Just get communicator from the netscape site.

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