On 13 Dec 2003 at 11:50, Anita Lewis wrote:
> I'm not sure on this, but I think your mail is going to be in > /var/mail/gsutton9503. It didn't go into scarletdown, because you didn't > tell it to. You should make a .fetchmailrc file for your home directory and > include > I have it working now. All I needed to do was log in as root and send a local email to scarletdown. That created a mailbox in /var/mail. After that I added one line to .muttrc alias scarletdown gsutton9503 I was then able to send and receive emails properly. That completes the email objective on my checklist now. I will go about tweaking and fine tuning it with your suggestions below later. Next up is the firewall and proxy. > is "scarletdown" here > > and like someone else said, use 'keep' in it until you get it working > correctly. > > For you it would be this: > > poll mail.charter.net proto pop3 > user "gsutton9503" is "scarletdown" here keep > > You can also include: with pass "secret-password" > That goes after the user section on mine - not sure if it has to be there. > You need to make .fetchmailrc rw for only the owner so that no one outside > can see your password. > > chmod 600 .fetcmailrc > > As for getting your mail, if you find that file in /var/mail, first make > sure that you do not have scarletdown there. If you have root privilege on > the machine, then you can change the name with 'mv' and change the owner. > It should already be group 'mail' and have rw for both owner and group, I > think. So you could just do: > > mv gsutton9503 scarletdown > chown scarletdown scarletdown > > Then mutt should go right to it and any future mail should be added on to > that file. > > Anita > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
