Setting up !Messenger (Nut Pi)

Hi,

how do you configure POP3 and SMTP servers in !Messenger? I don’t
see any possibility to add servers for incoming and outgoing mail. There’s an option for “mail transport”.
Manual says a “mail transport” is a mail program. That’s confusing! I thought !Messenger was exactly that.
It’s my first time running RISC OS. It’s the ideal OS for Raspberry Pi – smooth and fast.

how do you configure POP3 and SMTP servers in !Messenger? I don’t
see any possibility to add servers for incoming and outgoing mail. There’s an option for “mail transport”.
Manual says a “mail transport” is a mail program. That’s confusing! I thought !Messenger was exactly that.

Welcome to RISC OS.
First you need to always bear in mind that modularity is all round here.
So Messenger is a mail reader and mail ‘database’, mail transports are other supporting programs like Hermes or Popstar. My mail setup is on another machine and uses a mail reader known as Pluto with mail fetched by an antispam utility (AntiSpam) and sent using the Popstar transport utility.

You will probably find the habit of clicking the middle (menu) mouse button over the application icon before running it and following the arrows to the Help buried in the application directory useful.

I have not checked the NutPi Messenger Version. I use the actually. Normally you need the free !PopStar or the commercial Hermes to fetch the mails.

Edit: Netfetch is inside the NutPi. Short: Configure your account in Netfetch and a User in Messenger with the same name and set Netfetch a the default transport.

Hi, as has already been pointed out you’ll need a transport first.
POPstar is free: http://www.heenan.me.uk/acorn/popstar.html
You can also buy NetFetch which provides a nice wrapper/application launcher but it isn’t really neccessary. Edit popstar with your mail in/out server settings and tell !Messenger to use POPstar for mail transports. !Newshound does the same for usenet news. AFAIK you don’t need !Newsbase with !Messenger. It may seem a bit old school but works rather well. Messenger itself is actually quite nice.

POPstar is free: http://www.heenan.me.uk/acorn/popstar.html

Since the OP has NutPi, he already has NetFetch. This contains Hermes for fetching email, and NewsHound for fetching news. Both will be configured via NetFetch’s iconbar icon (IIRC). For someone new to the platform, I’d stick with those and ignore POPstar.

AFAIK you don’t need !Newsbase with !Messenger.

You haven’t done for years: MessengerPro (in 1999 or 2000, ish) replaced Newsbase with its own internal message database (MsgServe). This still needs NewsDir to actually provide a place to store the message files, but is configured from within MessengerPro itself (it appears to be part of M-Pro, in effect).

Hello

I am wondering which version of !Messenger comes with Nut Pi? In the readme file, they talk about !Messenger Pro, but the actual version does not seem to support iMap, so I guess this is the ‘lite’ version allowing POP only.

Or, maybe I do something wrong :)

Thanks for your help

they talk about !Messenger Pro, but the actual version does not seem to support iMap, so I guess this is the ‘lite’ version allowing POP only

That is correct. The idea was to provide a cheap intoduction to the range of RISC OS software.

An upgrade is available from R-Comp. I beleieve the details are in the NutPi documentation.
if not http://www.arsvcs.demon.co.uk/r-comp/messpro/index.html and rcomp@rcomp.co.uk

Thank you very much for your answers and kind words of welcome. I tried !NetFetch then. Its readme file put a big smile on my face. It’s really worth reading! :))
The Nut Pi version of !Netfetch doesn’t include SSL and TLS which my mail providers require. Does POPstar come with SSL and TLS enabled?

I just tried POPstar. No avail. :( POPstar doesn’t seem to work on Raspberry Pi.

Rabe: Did you install the version of popstar from
http://www.heenan.me.uk/acorn/download.html

Version 2.05 is the only version that may work (32bit)
It installed fine and the app loaded ok for me on a pandaboard, so it should run on a Pi.
But I’m running mpro and only use imap/ssl so I can’t test it.