Re: [9fans] Questions about plan9.

[Nolan Hamilton <nolan.h.hamilton@gmail.com>]

On Nov 4, 7:06�am, rtrli...@googlemail.com (Robert Raschke) wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Nolan Hamilton
>
> <nolan.h.hamil...@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

Thanks alot, people in comp.os.plan9 are much more polite then in
comp.os.vms.