On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:54:01 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > 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 >>
Won't the alias mean that every time you use scarletdown it will be interpretted to mean gsutton9503? I'm not sure you really want that if you have a user named scarletdown. My thinking would be to limit this to just fetchmail and mutt by editing .fetchmailrc and .muttrc, but I could be wrong. There are others far more qualified than I am on this topic. Did you find the lost mail? I was curious if there was a gsutton9503 file in /var/mail. Anita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
