Mail configurations like outlook

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Erdem

Beginner

Posts: 1

Saturday, February 8th 2003, 2:15pm

Mail configurations like outlook

Hi,
I'm a new member of Linux family. I want to configure my mail settings, but i don't know what should i do? For example in windows with outlook express, you can add a mail account by helping Account wizard. Mail adress. pop3 adress, smtp adress and user information...

Assume that i have a hotmail account. How can i configure this for fastly look up, like outlook express.

And another problem of mine: When my system start it gives an alert: "You want to use GMOME File Manager as a root. This can damage your system..." After this open a few windows on desktop. How can i stop this.

I use RedHat 7.1. And i connect to internet through win2000 professional on my network.

I said i'm a new member, if possible please explain simply.

Thanks now...

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Per

Beginner

Posts: 18

Location: Östersund, Sweden

Saturday, February 8th 2003, 3:20pm

I'm not new to Linux or KDE, but I think that the configuration of mail accounts is somewhat confusing as well (at least in KDE 2.1 where I last did it). Select Settings -> Configure KMail (or something similar, as I'm translating from swedish) and configure your email account under "Network". There are some more problems with Hotmail as Hotmail doesn't follow the POP3 standard. A solution to this problem is using gotmail (http://freshmeat.net/projects/gotmail/). I haven't used it myself, so I can't comment on how it works.

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And another problem of mine: When my system start it gives an alert: "You want to use GMOME File Manager as a root. This can damage your system..." After this open a few windows on desktop. How can i stop this.

This indicates that you log in as root when you start X. This is not recommended. Log in as another user when you start X to stop this message.

Hope this helps...

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dimitri

Trainee

Posts: 156

Occupation: Engineer

Sunday, February 9th 2003, 9:45am

Hi,
well KMail was very poor in KDE 2.x. So to use a acceptable client you should try mozilla 1.2.1. It has a mail client and a step by step assistant.

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You want to use GMOME File Manager as a root. This can damage your system...

Well easy: Don't log in as root. Especially as you said you are a newbie, you can easily damage your system. So if you don't have already another normal user, you shoud create one. I don't know if RH has own graphical tools, but you can do it on the commandline with adduser or the KDE tool kuser. Perhaps also gnome has such a graphical tool.

Dim

PS: Consider to upgrade your system to RH 8. 7.1 ist really a little old...

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kde-forum

Unregistered

Sunday, February 9th 2003, 6:08pm

Mandrake

Maybe you should use Mandrake.

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rsk

Beginner

Posts: 3

Wednesday, February 12th 2003, 3:11pm

Good call, if you are new to linux and want a really great combination of ease of use and desktop beauty, Mandrake fits right into that nitche. If you are a power freak, there is nothing better than Gentoo, and if you want power but don't want the time to do everything yourself, and want a servery-looking-desktop and good support from industry (you are scared of source packages) then go with Redhat.

Of course the lines between all of these are a bit blurry, but that's my personal take on it. I'm a Gentoo man myself. Its just so much fun to use

Best,
Riyad

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EUtopian

Beginner

Posts: 4

Tuesday, February 18th 2003, 11:36am

Mandrake

Mandrake always locked up on me during the installation process. I gave up on it and use Vector Linux (http://www.vectorlinux.org) now, works great!

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