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eyevee99
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 Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 12:28 pm Post subject: emailing in the console and x |
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I want to set up my box so I can use both pine and an x email client to monitor the same mailboxes and mail files (in case x is dead at any time).
Is this possible?
How do I set up pine for pop email? Do I need to set up something else that is checking mail and forwarding it to the standard pine mailboxes?
Is anyone else doing this? What clients do you recommend. I'm currently using evolution. But it doesn't appear to be able to monitor the same mail files as pine.
thanks
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Zu`
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| Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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I have no experience with this, but recently I came across an article that describes setting up FreeBSD for my ISP.
A part of it describes how to set up email in console.
I guess this is very similar to setting it up in Linux so perhaps this can help you a bit.
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now install fetchmail and pine from ports. setup fetchmail with
fetchmailconf or edit the configuration file, ~/.fetchmailrc, like this:
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set logfile "/home/your_system_user_login/.fetchmaillog"
set postmaster "your_system_user_login"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
set daemon 60
poll pop.pandora.be with proto POP3
user '[your telenet login]' there with password '[your telenet
password ... like i'm foolish enough to leave it !]' is '[your system user
login]' here
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set fetchmail to launch itself at each boot so you retrieve your mail
automatically even when you're not logged in. as user, type:
crontab -e
and drop in:
@reboot /usr/local/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1
note than in FreeBSD 4.6 and later, sendmail doesn't start anymore by
default. if it doesn't, you can load it by putting it in /etc/rc.local,
for example:
/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd
now load pine as user and edit the config:
personal-name = your system user login or whatever.
note: if your system user login name doesn't match your main e-mail alias,
you have to use the customized-hdrs field to modify the From: field.
example: customized-hdrs = From: la hache <lah@pandora.be>
user-domain = pandora.be
smtp-server = smtp.pandora.be
the rest is up to you. don't forget to put all your email aliases in
alt-addresses section.
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eyevee99
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| Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 10:41 am Post subject: thanks |
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Thanks, I haven't tried it yet, but that certainly seems to be what I'm after for setting up pine.
Cheers,
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