e-mail program

[Thomas Stivers]

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On May 01 2004  1:13 AM, Roy Nickelson wrote:
> hi,
> here is what I am trying to acomplish I am just wanting to send and receive
> e-mail at the moment. I would like to use something that is sor of standard.
> (like oe)  but from the console.  From what I can tell Mutt is good along
> with sendmail and fetchmail.  Is this the combination you use?  I would like

I use mutt and fetchmail, but because I could never get my head around
the sendmail configuration process I use exim instead.

> to somehow find where to congfigure this stuff without reading 4 or 5
> manuals before I can even do one thing.

I understand the feeling.

> Pine looks cool but I can't find where to put the user name and password for
> my isp.

Pine also kind of expects a sendmail-like program for sending mail just
by sending it to the local host. There is an option on the configuration
screen that lets you set an smtp server to use. I don't know if the same
is true for the pop server for recieving mail. I think you should at
least use fetchmail even if pine can send properly. I don't recall your
distro, but I am sure it is there as a package. Your fetchmail
configuration file should look something like the following.

# to have fetchmail act as a daemon polling the server every 5 minutes
set daemon 300
poll some.pop.server with proto pop3
user your-user-name
pass "your-password"

With fetchmail installed and this in a file called .fetchmailrc in your
home directory you should be able to receive mail.

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