setting up email for linux.

setting up email for linux.

[Shaun Oliver]

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Hi guys I need to know how to set up my email programm for linux please?
I'm using zipslack at the moment. no correct that zipspeak although there's no difference accept for speakup. <grin>
I've only got sendmail and procmail and for the client I've got mailx.
what do I do to setup my pop3 account with my isp?
Oh yeah while I'm here, how do I enter urls in lynx? I know that all this has probably been covered a few months ago but to be truthful, I had to delete alot of my emails so I didn't have a chance to read them all carefully..
Thanks for all your help. 
Shaun..

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Re: setting up email for linux.

[John Covici]

I would recomend using fetchmail -- I don't know about slackware
packages, I have been using RedHat and Debian.


"Shaun Oliver" <shauno@sgtnet.com.au> writes:

> Hi guys I need to know how to set up my email programm for linux please?
> I'm using zipslack at the moment. no correct that zipspeak although there's no difference accept for speakup. <grin>
> I've only got sendmail and procmail and for the client I've got mailx.
> what do I do to setup my pop3 account with my isp?
> Oh yeah while I'm here, how do I enter urls in lynx? I know that all this has probably been covered a few months ago but to be truthful, I had to delete alot of my emails so I didn't have a chance to read them all carefully..
> Thanks for all your help. 
> Shaun..

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Re: setting up email for linux.

[Shaun Oliver]

hi john.
I've got fetchmail here and I've installed/uncompressed it and now I have an
error popping up complaining about the permissions.
here is just a little bit of my .fetchmailrc file
set daemon 300 # Poll at 5-minute intervals

defaults
 interface "sl0/192.168.0.1" # SLIRP standard address
 user shauno is shauno
 fetchall

# Use this for production
poll mailserver.goanna.net.au protocol POP3:
 no dns,
 password nottelling:
any help from anyone out their would be greatly appreciated.
Shaun..
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From: "John Covici" <covici@ccs.covici.com>
To: <speakup@speech.braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: setting up email for linux.


> I would recomend using fetchmail -- I don't know about slackware
> packages, I have been using RedHat and Debian.
>
>
> "Shaun Oliver" <shauno@sgtnet.com.au> writes:
>
> > Hi guys I need to know how to set up my email programm for linux please?
> > I'm using zipslack at the moment. no correct that zipspeak although
there's no difference accept for speakup. <grin>
> > I've only got sendmail and procmail and for the client I've got mailx.
> > what do I do to setup my pop3 account with my isp?
> > Oh yeah while I'm here, how do I enter urls in lynx? I know that all
this has probably been covered a few months ago but to be truthful, I had to
delete alot of my emails so I didn't have a chance to read them all
carefully..
> > Thanks for all your help.
> > Shaun..
>
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Re: setting up email for linux.

[Geoff Shang]

Hi:

I've never seen the interface spec before.  This might cause problems later
depending on how you do net access, so you might want to remove it or at
least comment it out.  I was going to repost detailed instructions on how
to do the fetchmail thing, but you seem to have it sussed already (well
done).

The permissions thing is to safeguard your password.  Fetchmail will not
permit you to have a .fetchmailrc file that is readable by anyone else.  So
you will want read and write access for you and no-one else.  The easiest
way to do this is:

chmod 600 .fetchmailrc

You could also do:

chmod u=rw,go= .fetchmailrc

if you find that clearer.  Either way, it gives the user read/write access
and the group and other users no access.  You need these set or fetchmail
will refuse to run.

Geoff.

RE: setting up email for linux.

[Tim Burgess]

Hi,

I'm sorry I can't add anything to this thread, but can I ask that you do the
detailed fetchmail thing anyway for us complete novices?

Cheers.

Tim


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Geoff Shang
Sent: 19 March 2001 12:07
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: setting up email for linux.


Hi:

I've never seen the interface spec before.  This might cause problems later
depending on how you do net access, so you might want to remove it or at
least comment it out.  I was going to repost detailed instructions on how
to do the fetchmail thing, but you seem to have it sussed already (well
done).

The permissions thing is to safeguard your password.  Fetchmail will not
permit you to have a .fetchmailrc file that is readable by anyone else.  So
you will want read and write access for you and no-one else.  The easiest
way to do this is:

chmod 600 .fetchmailrc

You could also do:

chmod u=rw,go= .fetchmailrc

if you find that clearer.  Either way, it gives the user read/write access
and the group and other users no access.  You need these set or fetchmail
will refuse to run.

Geoff.



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Re: setting up email for linux.

[Buddy Brannan]

If I'm not very much mistaken, fetchmail also wants the .fetchmailrc to
have execute permission, so you'll be wanting to use
chmod 700 .fetchmailrc
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Re: setting up email for linux.

[Geoff Shang]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Buddy Brannan wrote:

> If I'm not very much mistaken, fetchmail also wants the .fetchmailrc to
> have execute permission, so you'll be wanting to use
> chmod 700 .fetchmailrc

This is incorrect.  .fetchmailrc is not a script or other executable, so
the execute permission makes no difference either way.

Geoff.

Re: setting up email for linux.

[Shaun Oliver]

thanks for the vote of confidence geoff.
I think though the specs I showed u, were allowing mail to go to root only
and not the user Shaun. I think I have it sussed by doing user shauno is
shauno Shaun Shaun here;
but then again I might be wrong.
Shaun
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang@uq.net.au>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: setting up email for linux.


> Hi:
>
> I've never seen the interface spec before.  This might cause problems
later
> depending on how you do net access, so you might want to remove it or at
> least comment it out.  I was going to repost detailed instructions on how
> to do the fetchmail thing, but you seem to have it sussed already (well
> done).
>
> The permissions thing is to safeguard your password.  Fetchmail will not
> permit you to have a .fetchmailrc file that is readable by anyone else.
So
> you will want read and write access for you and no-one else.  The easiest
> way to do this is:
>
> chmod 600 .fetchmailrc
>
> You could also do:
>
> chmod u=rw,go= .fetchmailrc
>
> if you find that clearer.  Either way, it gives the user read/write access
> and the group and other users no access.  You need these set or fetchmail
> will refuse to run.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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Re: setting up email for linux.

[Geoff Shang]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:

> thanks for the vote of confidence geoff.
> I think though the specs I showed u, were allowing mail to go to root only
> and not the user Shaun. I think I have it sussed by doing user shauno is
> shauno Shaun Shaun here;
> but then again I might be wrong.

I think the syntax is "user shauno is shaun here" assuming your local
account is shaun and your pop3 account is shauno.  I don't have to deal
with this however, as I run fetchmail as the user that it's intended for.
This has its advantages - you can control polling for mail on a
user-by-user basis.  Running it this way, you need only do "user shauno" as
it will deliver to the account running the process.

Geoff.

Re: setting up email for linux.

[Shaun Oliver]

ah. that sounds like un common sence to me.
thanks for that little bit of advise.
I'll give it a go and let you know how I get on
Shaun..
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From: "Geoff Shang" <gshang@uq.net.au>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: setting up email for linux.


> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Shaun Oliver wrote:
>
> > thanks for the vote of confidence geoff.
> > I think though the specs I showed u, were allowing mail to go to root
only
> > and not the user Shaun. I think I have it sussed by doing user shauno is
> > shauno Shaun Shaun here;
> > but then again I might be wrong.
>
> I think the syntax is "user shauno is shaun here" assuming your local
> account is shaun and your pop3 account is shauno.  I don't have to deal
> with this however, as I run fetchmail as the user that it's intended for.
> This has its advantages - you can control polling for mail on a
> user-by-user basis.  Running it this way, you need only do "user shauno"
as
> it will deliver to the account running the process.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
>
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