e-mail program

[Hynek Hanke]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:51:24PM -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote:
> > is mutt the best program to use for e-mail?  Where do you configure the
> > settings such as incomming and outgoing server username and password.
> 
> You don't put your smtp and pop3 server stuff in your .muttrc (mutt's
> configuration file). You need to sett up something like fetchmail to get
> your messages off your pop server 

Mutt can fetch the emails from the pop3 server automatically. You only need
to set up some mail transfer agent for the outgoing email.

The relevant options for the incomming mail in your .muttrc are:

set pop_host=pop3.volny.cz
set pop_user=hanke
set pop_pass=your_password
# Delete emails from server after fetching them
set pop_delete=yes

Then try shift-G in Mutt.

Have a nice day,
Hynek Hanke