Retrieving pop3 mail

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Author: Mike Cantrell
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Subject: Retrieving pop3 mail
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:
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Richard
> > Rosinski
> > Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 9:03 PM
> > To:
> > 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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