>I'm wondering how I can enable two different users
>to log on, connect via PPP and collect e-mail from the ISP. I suppose
>sendmail or fetchmail would work, and it seems that sendmail is
>functioning, but I cannot decipher the various howtos and other docs.
I use this method to get mail from various POP accounts:
create a file in your home dir called .fetchmailrc, something along the
lines of:
# fetchmail control file
defaults
fetchall
poll pop3.yourisp.co.uk
proto pop3
user user1
pass passwd1 is user1 here
poll pop3.yourisp.co.uk
proto POP3
user user2
pass passwd2 is user2 here
this will fetch all mail in the POP account on your isp's mail server with
passwd1 to user1 on your computer, and with passwd2 to user2's account on
your computer.
So, once your got this file, and made sure you've got accounts on your
linux box to send the mail to once it arrives, connect to the internet, type
fetchmail -f /home/user1/.fetchmailrc
and everything should work.
if you type fetchmail -f /home/user1/.fetchmailrc -v
you can see what's happening.
>Also, I've been interested in trying my hand at MUTT or some other
>command-line program, but haven't really found an easy way to begin.
>For instance, when I entered mutt at the command line, the program
>opened; but when I figured out how to begin a message, I couldn't get
>out! Even reading through various documents like Mutt's manual.txt
>seemed to reveal EVERYTHING I could ever want to know about mutt,
>_except_ basic commands!
Have you tried pine?
-- Richard Spencer
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