Re: Setting Up Email
Incoming from Scarletdown:
> I've been trying to set up POP3 email access (in text mode instead of from the desktop), and
> am really stumped now. I just did a little experiment and installed fetchmail, then from the
> command prompt gave the fetchmail command as follows:
>
> fetchmail -p AUTO -u gsutton9503 mail.charter.net
>
> I was then asked for my password for the server. After entering the password, apparently a
> bunch of messages downloaded to somewhere on my hard drive and were deleted off of the
> server. Where did the messages get saved to, and how do I access them? I tried running
> mutt, but at the bottom of the screen is the notice:
>
> /var/mail/scarletdown: No such file or directory (errno = 2) (scarletdown is the name of the
fwiw, this is essentially what happened to me when I installed
recently, before I'd got everything put into place. It does appear
that it's all working but is yet to be configured to your liking.
Where'd the mail go? Dunno. Do you have a ~/Mail directory? is
anything in it? I'm not sure where my first batch went either, and I
saw it flying by after "fetchmail -v". Since then:
- fix your ~/.forward (procmail needs this; man procmail tells you
what should be in it)
- tell mutt to look in ~/Mail
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