Re: fetchmail setup help

2000-03-05 Thread Steven W. Orr
There's an excellent package called install-sendmail. Find it via freshmeat.net. It ask a few rude questions and then spits out all of the correct sendmail files plus a .fetchmailrc I recommend it heartily. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Stranger thi

Re: fetchmail setup help

2000-03-05 Thread Bret Hughes
Seems like when I first started playing around with fetchmail I had to have an mbox file in my home directory. you can run mail to see your incoming mail and then 'q' out of it and it should create it if it is not there. I don't know if touch ~/mbox would do the same but it might, assuming this

Re: fetchmail setup help

2000-03-05 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 09:21:48AM -0500, wild bill wrote: > I setup fetchmail and got it to work. I also setup PINE as my reader. The > problem I have is that when fetchmail is invoked, it connects to my isp > mailserver and downloads the messages,then .So far I haven't been > able

fetchmail setup help

2000-03-05 Thread wild bill
I setup fetchmail and got it to work. I also setup PINE as my reader. Theproblem I have is that when fetchmail is invoked, it connects to my isp mailserver and downloads the messages,then .So far I haven't been able to figure out how to read it. It is like it is deleted. Here is

fetchmail setup help

2000-03-05 Thread wild bill
I setup fetchmail and got it to work. I also setup PINE as my reader. The problem I have is that when fetchmail is invoked, it connects to my isp mailserver and downloads the messages,then .So far I haven't been able to figure out how to read it. It is like it is deleted. Here is