If your just trying to download email from your ISP, couldn't you just install netscape and use the POP mail on that? That's what I do, and it's virtually idiot proof (has to be for me...).
Martin >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: "James Robert Lunsford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> >Subject: Help with E-Mail >Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 05:12:46 -0500 > >I need help setting up mail on my debian system. I've been running >it for about a month now. I've got the x-windows system up and running >but this mail thing has me stumped. > >I've learned DOS inside and out, same for OS/2, and ran an 8 line BBS >for 2 years, and didn't have this much trouble. I think that I'm just >getting >confused with all of the options that are out there. > >I've got smail, fetchmail, and nmh. When I installed the smail package >dselect >helped me through a rudimentary configuration and I told it all of the info >that >I knew. At the end it sent me a test message, but it said that the system >wasn't >ready. > >I'm lost here. I've read the docs that came with smail and fetchmail but am >totally confused. > >If someone could give me some pointers, steps to follow, or signs to look >for, I'd be really >grateful. A step by step setup guide would be great. It doesn't have to be >incredibly detailed >but the more the better. > >Thanks! > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
