Thanks for all your answers everyone. I have managed to get Pine up and running and ive got Fetchmail to get my mail for me from my pop accounts, configuring Fetchmail was a small task with the help of fetchmailconf. The only thing ive got to sort now is the crontab, guess its come to the time where i should learn how to use Vi. Im going to take Steve's suggestion and use Pine for a while before i switch over to anything more complicated, it seems nice enough to use. <Rant> I remember when i got hold of a copy of Linux a year or so ago (Redhat 6.0) it was the console that i most wanted to play with, Linux was going to be a challenge to learn anyway, but thats the whole reason i installed it in the first place. I hate having everything done for me, with linux theres a 1001 different ways of doing everything, and i love it! I guess when i got Mandrake 7.1 i got back into the habit of using the GUI for every little task, even though sometimes its much quicker to use the console. So im trying to reverse that now.. i know that the GUI is going to be used more and more over the next few years, especially by people new to the OS, but i really dont think _i_ will learn that much by going that route. </Rant> I hope some of the newer newbie's here try and remember that the console is much more powerful than KDE or Gnome will ever be. Anyways, my first coffee of the day is wearing off now, time for a top-up :-) Thanks for listening. and thanks for your help. Jamie Adams Housing Assistant --------------------------------- Tel: (01723) 507543 Fax: (01723) 355862 >---------- >From: Paul[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 29 August 2001 11:37 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] Console Mail Readers > >This is a multi-part message in MIME format... > >------------=_999152639-31838-59 > >Hi Jamie, >Hi Jamie, > >You can use Pine or Mutt. I have used Pine a long time, and I switched to >Sylpheed (graphical but very good imo). >You can use fetchmail or getmail (a great python script) to collect mail >from several pop-servers. Fetchmail is usually installed by default. Getmail >is available at http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-2.0/ >Getmail is real easy to set up, I use it instead of fetchmail. Both pull >mail and drop it off in mbox or maildir type mailboxes. > >I have used Pine because I have never managed to get Mutt going. The "hooks" >it uses always puzzled me. Both can read mbox and maildir boxes. > >Paul > >> Can anyone suggest a good console mail reader? I have been using Kmail >> for a while at home but i dont really like it that much and the console >> is kinda growing on me now :) >> >> I would like to configure my system to fetch my mail for me from my pop >> accounts and place it into my home mail file, i know that this is >> supposed to be possible, but how is it done? is it easy to setup is >> there a HOWTO somewhere? >> >> If it is possible, would it be possible to fetch mail form multiple pop >> accounts? >> >> Thanks for any help you can offer. > > > > >_____________________________________________________________________ >This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet >delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further >information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call >Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. >------------=_999152639-31838-59 >Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" >Content-Disposition: inline; filename="message.footer" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > >------------=_999152639-31838-59-- > _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
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