Hi, all. I'm trying to check and read email on the host using ssh, fetchmail and Alpine. Here's the line I'm using:

ssh user@host gmm

where "gmm" is a script on the host that looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
trap 'exit $USER_INTERRUPT' TERM INT
fetchmail -v --sslproto '' someplace.net
case $? in
1) sleep 4; exit 0;;
0) clamscan /var/spool/mail/user;
case $? in
1) echo "Virus found in mail"; exit 0;;
0) alpine -i;;
esac
esac

Everything works fine on the host. I can shell into host and run the "gmm" script and it fetches my email and opens alpine to the inbox. But if I don't log on to host and just run "ssh user@host gmm" and there is new mail it downloads it but won't open alpine. This is the error I get:

Can't access terminal or input is not a terminal. Redirection of
standard input is not allowed. For example "pine < file" doesn't work.

Does this have to do with ssh or the way I have the line written or both? I understand some of the error has to do with alpine opening the mail file and I could just copy it to the client, but I don't want to have to copy the mail file to the client machine every time because having the same email account content on two machines can be confusing.
Thanks.

try ssh -t user@host gmm

Thanks, that works like a charm.