Re: [newbie] Mutt or Pine
On Sun, 7 May 2000, Wayne Petherick wrote: >Howdy all, >I have read all of the mutt and pine how to's and man pages that exist and >still cannot get either to work. I appear to have my fetchmail set up properly >in that it downloads my mail fine, but I do not know where to!!! I am guessing >that where it downloads it to is where I have to point my Pine MUA to, but I >cannot find in any how to's where this is and how to set it up. I would >appreciate if anyone would avoid the temptation to point me to another how >to (unless of course it is written for a complete spoon!) and give me some >straightforward settings so I can get (preferably Pine) my mail up and running. > I am gettting frustrated with underdeveloped GUI's. Hi Wayne, I have turned to the combination Qmail and Getmail. Qmail (www.qmail.org) works well for me, with the "maildir" option, and Getmail is as simple as can be. I use Pine with that. Looked at Mutt, but I don't like it. Paul )0(---)0( A mistake only becomes an error if you refuse to correct it. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] Mutt or Pine
I also had problems with mail on my mandrake. I discovered that the problem did not come from the mail reader, but from the mail delivry agent. I had postfix installed, and I never figured how to configure it. (if someone knows where I can find easy docs about it and about mail configuration in general, I'm interrested.) But once I uninstalled it and installed sendmail instead, all went fine and I hadn't any problems anymore. HTH Flupke On Sun, 7 May 2000, Wayne Petherick wrote: > Howdy all, > I have read all of the mutt and pine how to's and man pages that exist and > still cannot get either to work. I appear to have my fetchmail set up properly > in that it downloads my mail fine, but I do not know where to!!! I am guessing > that where it downloads it to is where I have to point my Pine MUA to, but I > cannot find in any how to's where this is and how to set it up. I would > appreciate if anyone would avoid the temptation to point me to another how > to (unless of course it is written for a complete spoon!) and give me some > straightforward settings so I can get (preferably Pine) my mail up and running. > I am gettting frustrated with underdeveloped GUI's. > > TIA, > > Wayne > >
Re: [newbie] Mutt or Pine
Wayne Petherick wrote: > > Howdy all, > I have read all of the mutt and pine how to's and man pages that exist and > still cannot get either to work. I appear to have my fetchmail set up properly > in that it downloads my mail fine, but I do not know where to!!! I am guessing > that where it downloads it to is where I have to point my Pine MUA to, but I > cannot find in any how to's where this is and how to set it up. I would > appreciate if anyone would avoid the temptation to point me to another how > to (unless of course it is written for a complete spoon!) and give me some > straightforward settings so I can get (preferably Pine) my mail up and running. > I am gettting frustrated with underdeveloped GUI's. > > TIA, > > Wayne Check /var/spool/mail/. If it isn't there, check your mail transfer/local delivery agent setup to see where it's configured to put the mail. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] [newbie] Mutt or Pine
By default, fetchmail should place your mail in /var/spool/mail/yourusername. --on Sunday, May 07, 2000 10:26 AM +1000 Wayne Petherick wrote: > Howdy all, > I have read all of the mutt and pine how to's and man pages that exist and > still cannot get either to work. I appear to have my fetchmail set up > properly in that it downloads my mail fine, but I do not know where to!!! > I am guessing that where it downloads it to is where I have to point my > Pine MUA to, but I cannot find in any how to's where this is and how to > set it up. I would appreciate if anyone would avoid the temptation to > point me to another how to (unless of course it is written for a complete > spoon!) and give me some straightforward settings so I can get > (preferably Pine) my mail up and running. I am gettting frustrated with > underdeveloped GUI's. > > TIA, > > Wayne /b - Barry Marler Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology University of Georgia (706)542-0142 (706)542-0059
