Retrieving pop3 mail

[Todd C. Ames]

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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