enboking spell checkers with mutt

[Sean M McMahon]

I'm assuming there is a way to get mutt to grab mail off the pop server 
when I start mutt?  I have exim4   No idea how to configure that or how to 
see if it's configured correctly.  I don't want my machine to receive mail 
as if its a mail server, I want it to receive mail from the isp. 




Thomas Stivers <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
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07/12/2004 01:33 PM
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On Mon, Jul 12 2004 at 12:43:16PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> You should disreguard the pop_... variables and instead, use
> IMAP_... variables instead.  Sorry, but I'm not at home and the
> machine that has an IMAP example .muttrc is stuck in winblows right
> now and I cannot look at it for you.  Look in the example muttrc file
> that defaults in your /etc/mutt directory.  Look for imap_folder and
> imap_user and imap_password.  If set up properly, you can read the
> primary inbox and any sub folders you might have in place.  In fact, I
> even keep my various saved message folders and sent-mail in IMAP
> folders and are all accessible with mutt.
> 
> Works great for me.

This is a great suggestion if his ISP or whatever mail server he's using 
supports imap, but fetchmail is IMHO the better solution because it can 
handle as many accounts of whatever type you like and put all the mail in 
a local spool.

Also remember that you need some MTA like sendmail, ssmtp, nullmailer, 
exim, or something running to get mail off the machine, mutt will not 
handle that itself.

- -- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers           e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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