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Re: [PLUG] Re: Mail setup questions
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:42:42PM +0000, jbeck@jbwd.net wrote:
> Do you mean try something other than pine? Based on the above, Pine seems
> pretty simple. If other mail readers are simple, can you give their names,
> and maybe an example of how you get configure it (similiar to the Pine
> example above)...
Well, you should use whatever you feel comfortable with. But having the
option to switch and not have to set other things up is good.
> Ok, here is where I start to get lost. Is fetchmail something that is by
> default installed, say with my default RH7.1 workstation installation?
I would imagine it is. If it's not, just get it from
<http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/updates/7.1/i386/fetchmail-5.9.0-0.7.1.i386.html>.
Perhaps you'd also want to grab
<http://www.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/updates/7.1/i386/fetchmailconf-5.9.0-0.7.1.i386.html>
while you're at it.
> How do I make fetchmail "run" all the time? I would want it to start
> checking for mail automatically everytime I boot up the computer...
Somebody else had a suggestion for a line to put in your boot scripts.
> Final question (for now
> :-) - Once fetchmail retrieves my mail off my pop3 server, how does it know
> what email client I am going to use to read it with?
It doesn't. It simply passes it to your MTA (like sendmail or exim) or
your LDA (like procmail), which then puts it in $MAIL (which is
generally /var/spool/mail/username). Applications know to check $MAIL
(try "echo $MAIL" to verify where it is on your system) for mail.
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