Re: [9fans] Questions about plan9.

["Robert Raschke" <rtrlists@googlemail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Nolan Hamilton
<nolan.h.hamilton@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can somebody give me instructions on
> 1.  How can I can configure mail? ( and do not just redirect me to the
> wiki page on it.)

:-)

Do you mean reading mail or setting up a mail server? For the former,
the easiest is to use Mail inside of Acme. Not sure if this is the
latest greatest way to do it, but this is how I've done it for the
past four years and a bit.

In your lib/profile you will want to start upas/fs .

You can then open a mailbox on a remote IMAP server like this for
example (this will use factotum to prompt for your password):
  echo 'open /imap/your.imap.server/your.username local.box.name' >/mail/fs/ctl

And in Acme use "Mail local.box.name" to start the mail reader.

> 2.  How can I read newsgroups on plan9?

Hmm, can't seem to get to the contrib stuff on sources just now, so
here's how I do News for myself: http://www.tombob.com/plan9/

Robby