net access under Linux progress and questions

[Gregory Nowak]

Chuck and all,

Thanks for the info.  I'm using mutt as my mail client.  However I can't find what goes in the .muttrc file.  Everything is as you described below-- my domain is that of my ISP, and my user name on my system is the same as at my ISP.
Greg



> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Charles Hallenbeck <chuckh at mhonline.net
>To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 06:51:47 -0400 (EDT)
>Subject: Re: net access under Linux progress and questions

>Good morning, Greg -

>Let me try a couple of suggestions.  First, to implement "demand
>dialing," you must add a line to your /etc/ppp/options.demand file.  After
>the line that says "demand" you add a line that says "idle nnn" where nnn
>is how many seconds to wait before automatically disconnecting.  You might
>try 600 for instance.  Then as root you run the command "ppp -d" and you
>are in business.  I put that command in my startup script
>"/etc/rc.d/rc.local" which only runs once at system startup.

>To use fetchmail to retrieve your mail, you need a file called
>".fetchmailrc" in your home directory with permissions 600.  You can do
>many tricky things with that configuration file, but here is a copy of
>mine, which is quite simple.  I have replaced my actual password with
>number signs:

>poll mail.mhonline.net protocol pop3
>user chuckh password ######
>fetchall


>To simplify my own use, I have created a symbolic link called
>"fm" pointing to the "fetchmail" script, but that is just laziness here!

>As for sending mail, if you use the stock sendmail configuration without
>any changes, you will have to ask your mail program to do some addressing
>for you.  What I do is operate from a user account with the same name as my
>email account, and my local domain has the same name as my ISP domain.  You
>have to tell your mail program what yhour user domain name should be, and
>also tell it to use only your domain name, not your host name.  Pine has
>settings for those choices.

>Hope this much gets hyou started.

>Chuck



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