On 17 Jan, Terry Ong wrote:
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> hi guys
>
> Does anybody have setup a pop3 account with the elm email client before I will
> like to use the elm but don't how to set it up the help files and man page
> don't seen to help. can anybody point to me any document that describe how to
> set up a pop client will elm. any help will be much appreciated
>
> Terry Ong
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Elm and pine will build their directories when you run them the first
time. I dont have much experience with elm but mutt depends on a
resource file in your home directory called .muttrc. The best thing
with mutt is to visit Elkin's pages on how to configure mutt. I can
supply a sample .muttrc if you want but you will need to hack it a bit
and take some things out that you may not want. Mutt is a nice email
client with a lot of configuration options. Let me know if you would
like to see a sample .muttrc. By the way, if you downlod mutt from the
web, it compiles without a problem on SuSE 5.3. The other part of the
thing is that you need to have something to get the email from a POP
server (like your isp) to your client. Most people use fetchmail to do
this but you can configure mutt to grab your email also if you compile
it with pop3 support. Fetchmail is quite easy to setup and use. It
also requires one resource file called .fetchmailrc. This can be in a
user's home directory or you can place it in the root and have it poll
for a user or users. You can do a man fetchmail and see its options.
I have fetchmail running automatically here in the ip-up script in
daemon mode which means it connects whenever I start a ppp session and
checks my pop3 email server at predetermined times.
Drop me a private email if you would like samples of .muttrc or
.fetchmailrc resource files.
Some mutt resources are:
http://www.mutt.org
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~leitner/mutt/faq.html
This should get you started with mutt.
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