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On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Herman Aa wrote:
>
> I need to get my email going asap. I installed PINE. But it cannot
> dial the ISP. What pgm(s) I add? I need to send/receive mail POP3(?)
> style.
>
How you go about setting up PPP (the actual dial-up connection) differs
depending on what Linux distro that you are using. If you are using Red
Hat, the linuxconf program (run as root) will help you immensely.
To set up POP3 or IMAP mail, use fetchmail. (No matter what distribution
you're using). fetchmail can poll the server every x seconds. I use 90
for my POP3 mail... do your ISP a favor, though, and make sure to NOT make
it less than 60... if you're connected for 8 hours a day (or have your
computer connected that long, say you're downloading somehting, or in my
case, running programs with cron), you can generate about 300k of logs
depending on the amount of mail you process in a given day and how often
you poll the server. If that happens per user at the ISP, well, that's a
lot of space.
Anyway, you then either (a) make the connection yourself, or (b) write a
script called pine that makes the connection, calls fetchmail, then runs
the pine program. I prefer to make the connection myself, so that I know
exactly what's happening -- the only things that I script are things that
I need cron to run for me.
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