On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, dave mallery wrote: > now i am back to work finding how to get my mail from the isp's > mail server. should i use elm or pine or...?? do they work > like Eudora and go thru a connection dialog with the mail server > every so often??
I use fetchmail to get my mail, procmail to filter it to different mail boxes, and pine to read and send. I also use sendmail to send and grab anything that someone sends straight to my computer (I want to switch to qmail soon). If all this is scary, relax, once it's setup, you just use pine or elm and everything else is automatic. Grab fetchmail and procmail and use a .fetchmailrc like the following: poll mail.wm.edu protocol pop3 user bhmit1 pass secret mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f-" fetchall In my /etc/ip-up I have: if [ -x /home/bhmit1/.ppp-up ]; then su bhmit1 -c /home/bhmit1/.ppp-up fi and something similar in the ip-down. Then in my .ppp-up and -down I have: .ppp-up: fetchmail -d 300 --invisible -L /home/bhmit1/.log fetchmail # this makes the daemon start right now .ppp-down: fetchmail -q killall fetchmail 2>/dev/null # sometimes the -q doesn't catch it I feel like putting up a web site that will have all kinds of things like this in it (I have a cool script that goes through a list of chatscripts so you can try different isp numbers or different isp's). If I only had the time, Brandon ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .