problems installing dma in xfce4

[kengreen]

New to Freebsd 14. Trying to install dragonfly mail, dma, in xfce4. I have tried to follow all the instructions in the Freebsd Handbook and DragonFly DMA website, but when I try to install dma as the Mail Reader in xfce4 using /usr/libexec/dma, I get error "Failed to execute default Mail reader Input Output error. I have attached the xfce Desktop Entry, /etc/dma/dma.conf, /etc/dma/auth.conf, /etc/periodic.conf. Any suggestions before I scrap the new recommended mail client for thunderbird or something else? thanks

 

[SirDice]

Note that dma(8) is the default mailer in 14.0, it is included in the base. But what the heck does a desktop environment have to do with this? It's not a mail reader; MUA (Message User Agent), it is an MTA; Message Transfer Agent. It transfers mail from one place to another. Thunderbird and similar programs are MUA; they fetch or access mail from a mail server so a user (you) can read those emails. I suspect you're not familiar with these different concepts.

Message transfer agent - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Email client - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[kengreen]

I thought dma would do both. Sorry. Installed thunderbird and set it up without problem