From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 2 7:51:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D484837B417 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 07:51:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0ABEC901A00; Thu, 2 May 2002 10:50:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 10:50:59 -0400 From: mpd To: Nick Lozinsky Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to receive mail with mutt? Message-ID: <20020502105059.A28503@rochester.rr.com> References: <001c01c1f1e6$2d35fed0$145c1f41@bogart> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <001c01c1f1e6$2d35fed0$145c1f41@bogart>; from nl3481@wi.rr.com on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:32:20AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:32:20AM -0500, Nick Lozinsky wrote: > Hi, > > I've been bugging with this for a while, and still can't get it straight: > how do I get > mutt to receive mail directly to it? refreshing or checking the mailbox off > of my ISP's mail server every few minutes (5-10). I have installed mutt and Automatically, like via a timer? I don't think you can. That's what fetchmail is for. > can send and receive mail while on the same box and messaging the users on > the same box, but can't get my remote mail server's responses. > > I've tried to use fetchmail, and it does work, just doesn't stick it into > the mutt folder, wherever it is; Fetchmail uses your MTA to deliver mail. Check your MTA configuration. set spoolfile='/path/to/mailbox' (/var/mail/username by default.) Add that line to your .muttrc. > I have not tried using procmail, yet, as I > can't get the basic mail system to function. This isn't what procmail is for, anyway. > > Anyone, if you can clarify the steps of getting mutt to receive mail off of, > let's say, mai.me.com (a pretend ISP's mail server), I will appreciate it a > great deal. set pop_host="pop3.domain.com" set pop_user="username" set pop_pass="password" in .muttrc. Pressing 'G' within mutt will retrieve the mail. The usual caveats about putting passwords in textfiles apply. > > Thank you in advance. > > mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "POKEY I WANT TO BUY AN EIGHT FOOT TALL CRIME FIGHTING ROBOT!!" - Little Girl from "REQUEST DENIED THEN GRANTED" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message