[PLUG] Re: Mail setup questions

[jbeck@jbwd.net]

Hi Kevin, 

Based on a earlier post from Paul (Pine Config post), it appears that I can 
retrieve mail from my pop3 account, and sendmail from using SMTP by just 
configuring Pine (Paul included detailed instructions in the post).  I 
recall from your earlier post that you thought I needed to use fetchmail (or 
equivalent) to get the mail from my pop3 account.  Did I misunderstand, or 
do you still feel I need to use fetchmail, and that solely configuring Pine 
will not work by itself?  I am going to be trying this all tonight, so I 
just want to make sure I am clear. 

Thanks 

kevin mudrick writes: 

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> > Well, my user name on my system is jbeck (localhost.localdomain), and my
> > server is jbeck also, though I need to log into my Pop3 server using my full
> > domain name (jbeck@jbwd.net) to be able to get my email...  Do you think
> > that will work with Pine?  If not, is fetchmail something that you could
> > explain how to configure so I can use to get my incoming mail?
>
> I think I saw someone posting stuff about fetchmail in a previous, similar
> thread, on here.  The fetchmail FAQ
> (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html) is helpful. 
>
> The gist of it (assuming you are using pop3), is to have a .fetchmailrc
> file, like so: 
>
> # Sample .fetchmailrc
> poll popmailserver
>         with protocol pop3
>         username yourusername password yourpasswowrd is yourlocalusername; 
>
> put this file in your home directory, then do "chmod 600 .fetchmailrc" to
> make sure noone else can read it (since it will contain your password in
> plaintext) 
>
> run fetchmail, or if you want it to download your mail every X seconds, do
> "fetchmail -d X" 
>
> if you want to keep messages on the server, download all messages no
> matter what, etc, then do a "man fetchmail" to see more configuation
> options and such. 
>
> good luck,
> kevin 
>
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