Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2358 mails)

[grimmer@xxxxxxx (Lenz Grimmer)]

Hi,

On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Alvaro A.Novo wrote:

> I have configured sendmail and, apparently, everything is fine as
> sending mail is concerned. That's I open pine, say, compose a message
> and get it delivered (everywhere).
> 
> Now, using pine I am not able to check mail. For example, I send a
> message to my ISP account (anovo@xxxxxxxxxx) w/ pine, and pine does
> not accuse reception (even forcing checking ctrl+i), but if I use
> Kmail to check my account, it's there. (note: In pine I have SMTP =
> y2knet.net )
>
> I followed 6.1 manual instruction to setup sendmail, but I must be missing a
> "big picture". What am I missing? 

Sending and receiving mail are two different stories. I assume you are
using a POP3 account on y2knet.net? Well, Pine cannot receive mail via
POP. You need to run fetchmail to do this. If your ISP supports IMAP, you
can use Pine for accessing your mail boxes.

Bye,
        LenZ


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