Re: Setting Up Email
On 12 Dec 2003 at 21:05, s. keeling wrote:
> 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
>
> Where'd the mail go? Dunno. Do you have a ~/Mail directory? is
> anything in it?
There is a ~/Mail directory, but it is empty.
> - fix your ~/.forward (procmail needs this; man procmail tells you
> what should be in it)
~/.forward does not exist at all
> - tell mutt to look in ~/Mail
I already had the .muttrc file in my home directory set that way, but mutt seems to be ignoring
.muttrc. I also went ahead and renamed the Muttrc file in /etc to Muttrc.old, just in case that
was where mutt was grabbing its configuration from. But that still didn't help any.
So I suppose those emails are lost for good then?
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