Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1983 mails)

[hlarons@xxxxxxxxxx (Howard Arons)]

On Dec 16, 1998, zentara wrote:
> 
> Ole Kofoed Hansen wrote:
> > 
> > Hi zentara,
> > 
> > if it is a machine, which is only used by one person at time, one
> > way could be to have /etc/profile start fetchmail in daemon mode
> > and configure it to only get mail if the ppp device is open.
> 
> You make it sound so easy......:-)
> But I think I'll try Mutt first.
> 

Mutt is an excellent choice, even the version that comes precompiled 
with the SuSE distro. Fact is, I dropped Netscape for Mutt. Be aware 
that Mutt can download mail from a POP3 server _without_ needing fetchmail
(assuming that the POP3 option was selected at compile time; true for 
the SuSE version).

You can then get mail whenever you connect to your ISP. If you choose 
to use fetchmail, you can also just run it as a command without the 
daemon mode whenever you connect.

However, you'll still need sendmail, smail or another MTA to _send_ 
mail from Mutt. If you use smail, save yourself a world of hurt and 
start with the smart host option.

Howard Arons

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