Dear Barry:
I've taken your advice (and that of others) and configured fetchmail.
would very much appreciate your help on the last step, which eludes me.
I followed up Jose Sanchez' hint about mail handlers, contacted the list
and am almost there. The last step eludes me. Please see Matt's letter
below and my response:
Subject:
Re: [expert] Configuring PINE
Date:
Sun, 17 Oct 1999 20:45:37 -0500 (CDT)
From:
Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Helios-E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Jose Sanchez was very kind to explain to me that PINE uses mail very
> differently from Netscape, that is, that Netscape gets its mail directly
> from Sendmail while Pine has to have a a mail handler set up outside of
> pine so that mail will be dropped into my ~.mail directory, where PINE
> will find inbound messages upon startup.
Hmmm. On my system (and several other UNIX systems I've shell accounts
on) Pine uses /var/spool/mail/username as the default mailbox. It
creates
a ~/mail directory to keep sent messages and other personal mail folders
in, but the default inbox should be in /var/spool/mail.
> I am a non-techie but, after my experience last night (when I was stuck
> in the console for hours), I would very much like to use PINE so that I
> could always communicate with the list and with the outside world in
> case I am again, for any reason, unable to get into XWindows. I know how
> to navigate in PINE and can send mail but cannot receive it. How do I
> configure my Pop3 so that I can receive mail in PINE?
Get two RPMS- fetchmail and fetchmailconf. Fetchmail is an excellent
program to get mail from POP and/or IMAP servers, and fetchmailconf is
an
excellent GUI config program for fetchmail.
Fetchmail should be installed already, but fetchmailconf is not in the
default install. Look first in Cooker for the package; if it's not
there,
I'd suggest looking at http://rpmfind.net - they keep an excellent
database of rpms.
Fetchmail will (by default) deposit mail it finds in
/var/spool/mail/username (which is also the default for Pine). Thus,
very
little extra configuration is needed!
-Matt Stegman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear Matt:
Thanks so very much for writing. You may just be the point man to
finally help me score in Pine.
Someone suggested fetchmail and yes, I have fetchmail and fetchmailconf
on my Mandrake 6.1
I put up a message yesterday on the Mandrake list concerning Pin.
Someone added another hint: fetchmail. It was Jose Sanchez who explained
to me the way Pine works and how you need a special mail handler to
configure it for receiving mail (but you can always send mail!).
I must be very close to success. I read man fetchmail, configured
fetchmailconf (novice mode), tested fetchmail and ran fetchmail and
still I cannot receive any mail (I tested by sending myself a letter but
coulnd't get it in Pine). I checked and rechecked my mail server (same
as in netscape), pop3 (did an autoprobe, came up with pop3 and a "good"
message), my user name (sher07) and my password (same as in Netscape).
The last item was my name. I tried Ben, I tried sher and Benjamin Sher.
I imagine this item is not critical anyway. Or is it? At any rate, Pine
is still not receiving my mail.
Data follows below (including about /var/spool/mail)
Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. But please remember that
I am a newbie.
Benjamin
Testing fetchmail
fetchmail: 5.0.3 querying mail.msy.bellsouth.net (protocol POP3) at Sun,
17 Oct 1999 21:42:43 -0500 (CDT)
fetchmail: POP3< +OK QPOP (version 2.52) at mail2.mco.bellsouth.net
starting.
fetchmail: POP3> USER sher07
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Password required for sher07.
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK sher07 has 3 messages (5417 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 3 5417
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 0 is the last read message.
3 messages for sher07 at mail.msy.bellsouth.net (5417 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 3 messages (5417 octets)
fetchmail: POP3< 1 2065
fetchmail: POP3< 2 726
fetchmail: POP3< 3 2626
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2065 octets
reading message 1 of 3 (2065 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP< 220 adsl-77-232-172.msy.bellsouth.net ESMTP Postfix
(Beta-19990601)
fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO localhost
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-adsl-77-232-172.msy.bellsouth.net
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE 10240000
fetchmail: SMTP< 250-ETRN
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 8BITMIME
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=2065
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<sher@localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
#********************fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok: queued as E39FB391A
flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Message 1 has been deleted.
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 2 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 726 octets
reading message 2 of 3 (726 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=726
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<sher@localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
#********fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok: queued as 4564A391B
flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 2
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Message 2 has been deleted.
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 3 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2626 octets
reading message 3 of 3 (2626 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=2626
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok
fetchmail: SMTP> RCPT TO:<sher@localhost>
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok
fetchmail: SMTP> DATA
fetchmail: SMTP< 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
#*********************.****fetchmail: SMTP>. (EOM)
fetchmail: SMTP< 250 Ok: queued as 8815B391C
flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 3
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Message 3 has been deleted.
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Pop server at mail2.mco.bellsouth.net signing off.
fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT
fetchmail: SMTP< 221 Bye
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0
Done.
Running fetchmail
8 messages for sher07 at mail.msy.bellsouth.net (19069 octets).
reading message 1 of 8 (2640 octets) .. flushed
reading message 2 of 8 (1749 octets) . flushed
reading message 3 of 8 (2407 octets) .. flushed
reading message 4 of 8 (2642 octets) .. flushed
reading message 5 of 8 (1921 octets) . flushed
reading message 6 of 8 (3452 octets) ... flushed
reading message 7 of 8 (2293 octets) .. flushed
reading message 8 of 8 (1965 octets) . flushed
Done.
[sher@adsl-77-232-172 sher]$ cd /var/spool/mail
[sher@adsl-77-232-172 mail]$ ls
root
[sher@adsl-77-232-172 mail]$ ls -la
total 440
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1024 Oct 18 00:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 Oct 15 17:07 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 444947 Oct 18 00:01 root
[sher@adsl-77-232-172 mail]$
Thanks so very much.
Benjamin
Benjamin and Anna Sher
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
