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Complete Idiot's Guide to Linux
FTPFTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a protocol used to move files between computers. FTP under KDE is very simple: To go to a site, just enter an FTP URL in the location bar of a KFM window, like this: Somehost.somedomain.com is the fully qualified name of the machine you want to connect to. If that machine supports anonymous FTP, connections for which you dont need a login and password, KFM will display the contents available at that location. To navigate, use KFM as if it was your local hard disk. You can copy files between your local machine and the server or from the server to your local machine by dragging and dropping files between KFM windows (see the next figure).
Because some files you transfer will be large, the speed of the copy will be much slower than you normally experience. But dont despair the file will be transmitted across the wire. If the server doesnt allow anonymous connections, youll need to specify your login name, like this: user is your user name, followed by an at symbol (@), then followed by the fully qualified name of the machine. When you enter FTP URLs like this, more advanced programs raise a panel that asks you for your password. You can also enter your password right in the URL; however, I dont recommend that you do this, as the password might be displayed for other people to see in the URL. KFM removes the password from the URL when you have connected. To supply your password on the URL, enter it like this: The username and password are separated by a colon (:), like this: The same technique for accessing files using FTP can be used with a browser such as Netscape Navigator. To access the site, enter the URL, and you are delivered. Instead of clicking and dragging to move files across the network, just right-click on the link and choose the Save Link As[el] command from the context-sensitive menu that is displayed. Use the Save panel that is displayed to navigate your way to the location where you want to save the file. KDE provides an email program called kmail that you can use to read and write email messages. Although this program gets the job done, I am a little partial toward Netscape Messenger, as it provides more features than kmail. One nice feature of kmail over Netscape Messenger, however, is that kmail can manage multiple email accounts for you. Netscape allows you to set up multiple remote IMAP mailboxes but only a single POP mail account. Most users have several POP mailboxes. IMAP, though more powerful and useful to power users, is not as popular between ISPs. I also like having a spell-checker accessible right from the application, as Netscape Messenger offers. At the time of this writing, kmail doesnt allow me to spell-check my messages. In this section, you will learn how to set up Netscape Messenger to handle your email.
The process of setting up your email reader is very similar for most email applications. You will need to know the following:
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