Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2425 mails)

[klcroxen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kevin Croxen)]

Fetchmail dumps mail off at the smtp port (25) of your box; sendmail (which you 
probably have installed and running by default) takes it the rest of the way to the user's 
mail spool under the /var directory structure (/var/spool/mail/<username>). Pine by 
default looks in the user's spool for mail, but can be reconfigured under its setup / 
configuration menu for any inbox you like. You may also directly configure Pine for your 
ISP's smtp address for outgoing mail in the same menu, and it and sendmail (or 
whatever) will get the stuff sent without further fuss.

You may wish to consult the man page for fetchmail for its various command-line 
options.  You may also wish to consult the fetchmail homepage (everything has a 
homepage): http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/index.html   for other general 
information. And, finally, it wouldn't hurt to have a read-through of :

http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/howto/Mail-Administrator-HOWTO.html

...since with Linux just because there's only one of you doesn't mean you're not a mail 
administrator.

Happy electronic postality.

--Kevin 

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:47:56 +0000, Michael Norman wrote:

>On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Kevin Croxen wrote:
>> Pine is just the reader once you've already gotten the mail. To get the 
>> mail, use fetchmail, included with the distribution, as your transport
>> agent. 
>> 
>> --Kevin
>> 
>> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, W@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>> 
>> > ...ok - i know it'z stup. question, but... how to check yer e-mail with pine?
>> > i have 2 mail boxs & i'd like 2 be able 2 receve my mail in txt-based linux...
>> > help bitte :)
>> > W@RG0D
>I tried configuring fetchmail so I could use Pine but I couldn't find where
>fetchmail was putting the mail.  Do I have to specify somewhere specific ?  Do
>I need another programme to send mail if I use Pine ?
>
>Mike
>
>> > 
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