Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:05:24 -0600 From: Zach Thompson <cublai@lastamericanempire.com> To: Nick Lozinsky <nl3481@wi.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mutt and POP3 servers Message-ID: <20020413190524.A415@lastamericanempire.com> In-Reply-To: <3CB8BF66.8E186FDA@wi.rr.com>; from nl3481@wi.rr.com on Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 06:29:42PM -0500 References: <3CB8BF66.8E186FDA@wi.rr.com>
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* Nick Lozinsky <nl3481@wi.rr.com> [020413 17:37]:
> Hello:
>
> I've setup mutt, and am using sendmail for mail deliveries. If I were to
> have mutt get mail from my ISP's
> POP3 server, do I need some other program running, like fetchmail or
> something? I dont know how mutt works, but it doesn't get any mail for
> me from my host, I've included the following in my .muttrc config file:
>
> set pop_hostname="pop-server.wi.rr.com"
> set pop_ser="nl3481"
> set pop_pass="mypass"
>
> And so forth with my mailbox and such. Do I need to do anything to
> actually receive mail from my mail server?
fetchmail is slightly more robust and in daemon mode (or cron'ed) is
hardly any different than delivery to your local server.
set daemon 3600
defaults proto pop3
poll pop-server.wi.rr.com user "n13481" password "mypass"
nokeep;
...in ~/.fetchmailrc and be done with it.
Zach Thompson
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