From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 22 13:50:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497F216A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:50:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFF9443D5C for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:50:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshua.lokken@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 36so43021wra for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 05:50:18 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=kDY7Wmy17rHS9x8/0V8nfpd8wq9yKh9q2rcehBC1F6j/usU5JwCntwSUYj9NhRYdwS1HFn+lIzAW9+jrQMaVzWlzkKfkrXmb/7adTPCCIl9vC+P7fNkQgmv13cHVJxEk2qDmpcypDuuctadeeUS2AqJqKW6NieYwhqGT8OoSYGc= Received: by 10.54.42.17 with SMTP id p17mr278057wrp; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 05:50:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.11.33 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Dec 2004 05:50:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:50:18 -0600 From: Joshua Lokken To: J65nko BSD In-Reply-To: <19861fba04122117477ff11204@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <41C8A282.8010203@nerdshack.com> <19861fba04122117477ff11204@mail.gmail.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Desperate for Help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joshua Lokken List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:50:19 -0000 On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 02:47:19 +0100, J65nko BSD wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 17:24:02 -0500, alfredo perez > wrote: > > Heloo list > > > > I have been trying to set up my FreeBSD 5.3 to get my emails with no > > results. I have installed and set up Mutt, Ssmtp and Fetchmail. None of > > them are working properly. I have no idea where to start first. I have > > already read the man pages and followed several how-tos I found on the > > internet but no results. I was wondering if any of you know of a web > > site with steps that I can follow to sep up my Mutt, fetchmail and > > ssmtp. I dont want to give up on this!!! > > > > THANKS > > Start with fetchmail. You need a ".fetchmailrc" file in your home > directory. Some examples > > poll pop.domain2.com protocol POP3 timeout 60 no dns > user "loginname" password 'poppassword' is homedirowner here, > options fetchall fetchlimit 0 > > poll pop3.domain.com protocol POP3 > user "loginname@domain.com" password "poppasswd" is homedirowner here, > options fetchall > > As you can see some ISP's require only your login name, others require > "loginname@domain.com". You can run "fetchmail -v" to see where you > get stuck. > > This is an example for googles gmail, using SSL > > poll pop.gmail.com protocol POP3 timeout 60 no dns > user "gmailname" password "gmailpassword" ssl is homdirowner here, > options fetchall fetchlimit 0 > > If you are new to all this MTA, MUA and SMTP thing, you could consider > to use Pine. mutt is nice but as a beginner Pine is probably easier to > understand and configure than mutt. Ah! If you want to learn to use Mutt, learn to use Mutt. Now that you've got an idea of how to setup fetchmail, you'll want to create a ~/.muttrc file. There are many, many sample .muttrc files online; Google is your friend. This is the example I worked from when I first setup Mutt: http://www.hserus.net/muttrc.html All I had to do to get Mutt working with ssmtp was to tell Mutt to use ssmtp in ~/.muttrc set sendmail="/path/to/ssmtp" HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate