Oh how i wish

[Thomas Stivers]

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On 10/23/03  4:30 PM +0200, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
 
> Umm, this is good enough, but here's the little problem i face at this
> stage: My address now is crisekstrom at bredband.net. I want to use this
> address since i don't yet have my own domain. So how do i do to
> choose my isp instead of "localdomain"? and can i set up more accounts
> with other domains like thecount at myrealbox.com or such? I'm planning
> to use Mutt as my email client, it looks neat.

It sounds like you want to fetch your mail from a pop3 or imap mail
server, which you can do with fetchmail. If i recall correctly you are
using Redhat, so I can't tell you where to find fetchmail packages, but
here is an example of the .fetchmailrc configuration file you will need

poll put.your.server.here with proto pop3
user your.remote.user.name there is your.local.user.name here
passwd "yourpassword"

You will of course want to change it to the correct values. You can have several sets of lines like the previous ones for different accounts and if you use the same local user name they will all come to your normal mailbox.

Then you can run fetchmail when you want to get your mail from the
server or you could add a line like "set daemon 300" at the top of
.fetchmailrc to have it keep checking your mail in the background every
5 minutes.

Good choice with mutt. While it is (or can be) a bear to configure it is IMHO (as the authors say) far less sucky than other mail programs. Good luck and try not to get too frustrated with the steep learning curve, before you know it all this stuf just becomes second nature.

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Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more
carefully than others.
Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org	gpg: 45CBBABD
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