Chris Job <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to setup my email so that I can receive and send via my
> linux box. I would like use pine as my email reader. I have RH5.2 and
> can connect to my ISP and surf the web just fine. My question is, how
> do I configure lunix or pine so that it when ever I'm connected to my
> ISP it will check their mail server for mail and download it to my box?
1 - get, install, configure fetchmail
2 - setup pine to look in the default place for your INBOX (if you
haven't changed it just leave it)
3 - point pine's smtp server to localhost
4 - make sure sendmail is running in "queue only" mode (it doesn't try
to send mail unless you explicitly tell it to). Find where
sendmail is loaded from (I'm not a RedHat man so I can't tell
you) and make sure it is loaded something like this
"/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd".
And that's basically it. You can automate your email send/receive by
adding a couple of lines to /etc/ppp/ip-up...
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sendmail -q & (to send the outgoing mail)
fetchmail (to retrieve the incoming mail)
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Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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