On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 09:26:10PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-> Hi all/Emily,
->
-> Success! I just discovered that I had accidentally deleted the symlink in
/usr/sbin/sendmail which called postfix, so that was why the messages weren't being
sent at all.
->
-> Then I called a small script (copied from the postfix docs) which flushes the mail
queue and
->
-> In the mean time I had installed fetchmail and it revealed itself to be very easy
to use: one command line
->
-> fetchmail -p POP3 -u username POP.server.address
->
-> retrieved my messages, and there it was: the test message I had just sent to
myself!!
->
-> It all works flawlessly; I am very gratefull for your help! Just one question,
though:
->
-> Right now, I must use all this commands to retrieve my messages and send any
replies:
->
-> fetchmail
-> mutt
-> .email (name of the script which flushes the queue)
->
-> How do you "gurus" :-) do it?
Excellent start.
To answer the question in your subject line, yes. In mutt, hit "h" to
reveal all the headers. :-)
Now, if you run X, look at fetchmailconf. Get your configuration into
.fetchmailrc, which will save you a lot of typing and is less error prone.
Also, set fetchmail to run as a daemon. You may not want to do that if
you use a dial up on demand connection, though.
Then look at procmail to filter your incoming email into separate files,
including, in some cases, /dev/null.
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