Re: [PLUG] Re: Mail setup questions

[kevin mudrick <kevin@furhurts.com>]

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> 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.

Using pine alone will work w/o fetchmail, for mail retrieval.  Using
fetchmail is nice though; it gives you the ability to download things in
the background, it can pass off mail to procmail for filtering, and if you
decide to go use another mail program, then you already have a working
mail retrieval process.  Also, you can tunnel an ssh connection with
fetchmail, allowing you to encrypt your mail retrieval end-to-end, without
worry of someone snagging your password as it travels plaintext across the
wire.

I originally wasn't sure if your local username had to match your remote
username for pine pop3 retrieval to work -- for some reason it was either
a figment of my imagination, something I read a while ago, or perhaps, I
was getting it confused with the default of the "From:" field (which can
be changed by setting the "customized-hdrs" field in config/setup to be
"From: Your Name <youremailaddress>" (no quotes).  (Or you can setup roles
for multiple accounts..)

- -Kevin


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