Re: Setting Up Email
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:54:01 -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
> 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
>>
Won't the alias mean that every time you use scarletdown it will be
interpretted to mean gsutton9503? I'm not sure you really want that if you
have a user named scarletdown. My thinking would be to limit this to just
fetchmail and mutt by editing .fetchmailrc and .muttrc, but I could be
wrong. There are others far more qualified than I am on this topic.
Did you find the lost mail? I was curious if there was a gsutton9503 file in
/var/mail.
Anita
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