Re: Mail HowTo

[Chris Nestrud <ccn@uark.edu>]

I'm assuming that you want to use fetchmail to get your mail and pine to
read it locally. It's possible to use pine to do both of these, but
fetchmail will give you more options. The account name, password, and
incoming mail server go in ~/.fetchmailrc. You can set up multiple
entries for multiple mail servers. I'll make an example below. From what
I remember of pine the smtp server goes in the main configuration
section of setup. You can also put your outgoing real name and domain
name there. In order to use multiple from addresses you'll need to look
into using roles, or just use two different accounts on the system.
Here's an example of ~/.fetchmailrc with several accounts.

poll  "mail.somewhere.com"
protocol pop3
username "smith"
password "secret"

poll "server.somewhere-else.com"
interval 5 # if you put fetchmail in background and check each minute it
		# will check this account every 5 minutes
protocol imap
username "me"
password "bigsecret"
ssl # use encryption, not always supported by isp

Hope this helps and doesn't make things even more confusing.

Chris

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:21:47AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Hello,
> Thanks to those who answered my question on upgrading from RH 7.1 to 7.2.
> Here's one last question before I switch to Linux except for some office
> chores that require Windows.
> I've been reading the manuals for Fetchmail and Pine, but I can't quite
> figure out where to put the various information for setting up an e-mail
> account. So I'm wondering if there is a howto that explains step by step
> what to do to set upo an e-mail account in RedHat.
> My current e-mail address, director@chpi.org is provided by our Webhosting
> service. We also have DSL from a different company. To set up this account
> on Linux, i will have to specify the webhosting company's server for
> incoming mail, the DSL company's server for outgoing mail, the account name
> assigned to be by the Webhosting company, my e-mail name, "director", and of
> course my password with the Webhosting company. Where does all this
> information go?
> I also have an Internet Ministry account which is set up in a similar way.
> I'm anxious to get off of Windows with its lack of security and instability.
> Thanks.
> John
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