Hi again, Here is another Mutt question: How can I modify my .muttrc file so that I can access my mail directly from my ISP's POP3 server? I like going through my mail on the server and deleting before I download a brik outhouse full of e-mails (particularly spam that I never want to reach my HD). I know that the command mutt -f pop://username@popserver will get me onto the pop server, but how do I specify mutt to do that at startup and then download the undeleted mails to my local mailbox? Cheers, Brian
* Brian Durant
Hi again,
Here is another Mutt question:
How can I modify my .muttrc file so that I can access my mail directly from my ISP's POP3 server? I like going through my mail on the server and deleting before I download a brik outhouse full of e-mails (particularly spam that I never want to reach my HD). I know that the command mutt -f pop://username@popserver will get me onto the pop server, but how do I specify mutt to do that at startup and then download the undeleted mails to my local mailbox?
Hmmm, AFAICS from http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-4.html#ss4.10 you should be able to just delete the ones you do not want and then use the fetch-mail function: "Another way to access your POP3 mail is the fetch-mail function (default: G). It allows to connect to pop_host, fetch all your new mail and place it in the local spoolfile. After this point, Mutt runs exactly as if the mail had always been local." -- Mads Martin Jørgensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogic, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.
On Thursday 04 April 2002 20:30, Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
Hmmm, AFAICS from http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-4.html#ss4.10 you should be able to just delete the ones you do not want and then use the fetch-mail function:
"Another way to access your POP3 mail is the fetch-mail function (default: G). It allows to connect to pop_host, fetch all your new mail and place it in the local spoolfile. After this point, Mutt runs exactly as if the mail had always been local."
Yeah, I have looked at this in the manual as well. To me, it looks like I can access with pop://popserver, but how is this different than "set pop_host="popserver"" in the .muttrc file and should pop host instead read: "set pop_host="pop://popserver""? (default: G) is of course, a possibility as well, but that would mean downloading the mail to wherever the spoolfile is located on my hard disk, which is what I was trying to avoid. At this time the command line "mutt -f pop://user@popserver" still looks like the best bet. I was hoping for a work around that got me on the mail server directly at Mutt start up, but I can feel that I am getting in over my head. I'm still a newbie, so even though I have read the excellent Mutt manual all the way through, there is still a lot that I don't get. Cheers, Brian
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