[pskmail] Re: Question

  • From: "Rein Couperus" <rein@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:20:52 +0200 (CEST)

Hi Franco,

I think this is interesting for the FAQ... 

Rein PA0R

>Il 29/08/2011 21:02, Gunnar Bulukin ha scritto:
>> Hi Franco,
>>
>> Yes I use Linux and the pskmailclient for mail but when starting just the
>> mailclient you get an error message saying that fldigi is not started. OK, I
>> can buy that but after finishing my mail offline I have to end the client,
>> start fldigi and start the mailclient again!! Extra work!! Not a big deal
>> but a bit backwords;-)
>
>This in my setup for using Thunderbird or Evolution. I suppose any other
>mail client can do this.
>
>For mail reception all I have done is define a new account of "spool"
>type with my mail account used in PSKMail and file inpit from
>~/.pskmail/Inbox. With no automatic check all mail received with PSKMail
>are also in my mail client with a manual check
>
>For mail sending I have defined a SMTP server on my localhost with
>Postfix (default SMTP for Ubuntu). In Postfix configuration I have
>defined a service "pskmail" as default for mail sent with my mail
>address in "From" field. This service call an external program written
>in Python. This program get mail from Posfix, convert it to PSKMail
>format and write it to ~/.pskmail/Outbox.
>So, I can write offline all my emails with mail client (using conctact
>list, template, etc), send it to Outbox and, when connected to PSKMail,
>I send it to PSKMail server.
>
>No need to exit from client, to start Fldigi for mail composing, etc.
>
>If you like I can send my config files and my little Python prog.
>
>Regards
>Franco Spinelli
>IW2DHW
>


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