Retrieving pop3 mail

[Mike Cantrell]

You can use the fetchmailconf GUI frontend to create your .fetchmailrc
file. It works nicely.

Regards,
Mike Cantrell

"Todd C. Ames" wrote:
> 
> I have always found it easiest to get mail from a POP account using
> fetchmail and pine.
> 
> Just set up a .fetchmailrc in your home dir, something like:
> 
> #fetchmail conf example
> 
> poll mail.rickrosinski.com with proto POP3 user "USERNAME" there with
> password "PASSWORD"
> is YOUR_LOCAL_USERNAME here
> 
> #end of example
> 
> configuring pine is pretty straightforward.
> 
> you can run fetchmail as a daemon to automatically check your pop accounts.
> 
> hth,
> 
> todd
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Richard
> > Rosinski
> > Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 9:03 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Retrieving pop3 mail
> >
> >
> > I have just migrated to Redhat 6.2 from Slackware.  So far, so good -
> > until I tried retrieving mail from my ISP.  After running netcfg and
> > setting up the ppp interface, I successfully connected to the Net and
> > was able to surf.  Then, I tried setting up my mail client to retrieve
> > mail from my site (rickrosinski.com) which I have done for a long time,
> > successfully.  The mail client (kmail) reports that my usr name &
> > password are incorrect - which is strange, since it was set up the exact
> > same way on my Slackware system.  Then, I tried other mail clients.  All
> > report the same error.  Everything works in Windoze as it always did.
> >
> > I am a newbie to Redhat, and have not mofified anything (except for what
> > I did with netcfg).
> >
> > Please help!!!
> >
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