CHAPTER 7

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Mail (E-Mail) and News

  • Mail (e-mail) clients
  • Evolution
  • Thunderbird
  • Command-line mail clients
  • Accessing mail on remote POP mail servers
  • Newsreaders
  • News transport agents

Electronic mail utilities perform the same basic tasks of receiving and sending messages. Some mail clients operate on a desktop, such as KDE or GNOME. Others are designed to use a screen-based interface and can be run only from the command line (the terminal window). For web-based Internet mail services, such as Gmail and Yahoo, you can use a web browser instead of a mail client to access mail accounts provided by those services. Table 7-1 lists several popular Linux ...

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