Re: Setting Up Email
On 13 Dec 2003 at 11:50, Anita Lewis wrote:
> I'm not sure on this, but I think your mail is going to be in
> /var/mail/gsutton9503. It didn't go into scarletdown, because you
didn't
> tell it to. You should make a .fetchmailrc file for your home
directory and
> include
>
I have it working now. All I needed to do was log in as root and send a
local email to scarletdown. That created a mailbox in /var/mail. After
that I added one line to .muttrc
alias scarletdown gsutton9503
I was then able to send and receive emails properly. That completes the
email objective on my checklist now. I will go about tweaking and fine
tuning it with your suggestions below later. Next up is the firewall and
proxy.
> is "scarletdown" here
>
> and like someone else said, use 'keep' in it until you get it working
> correctly.
>
> For you it would be this:
>
> poll mail.charter.net proto pop3
> user "gsutton9503" is "scarletdown" here keep
>
> You can also include: with pass "secret-password"
> That goes after the user section on mine - not sure if it has to be
there.
> You need to make .fetchmailrc rw for only the owner so that no one
outside
> can see your password.
>
> chmod 600 .fetcmailrc
>
> As for getting your mail, if you find that file in /var/mail, first
make
> sure that you do not have scarletdown there. If you have root
privilege on
> the machine, then you can change the name with 'mv' and change the
owner.
> It should already be group 'mail' and have rw for both owner and group,
I
> think. So you could just do:
>
> mv gsutton9503 scarletdown
> chown scarletdown scarletdown
>
> Then mutt should go right to it and any future mail should be added on
to
> that file.
>
> Anita
>
>
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