what do i use for the
host send and host receive
if i want to use yahoo or msn

also i hear that msn dosn't work with evolution but will it work w\
kmail or other.

yahoo:

- the free email subs is not accessible via email client (well, before, yahoo offered free pop access). either u upgrade to a another yahoo subscription or google.com/linux for YoSucker - i've used that before - only for retrieval. the documentation for that utility is easy to understand (u can post back if u need some help.

MSN
- nope. u can't access it 'directly' with any linux email client (like the yahoo situation). check sourceforge for a third party tool. I remember last year that somebody posted a fetchmail script to do this (send and rcv) but i think MSN did some changes to their setup making the script obsolete.

hth

i went to source fourge and found yahoo pop but i don't think it works because i use the yahoopop exe and it dose nothing and i did everything it said to do

will any of the email clients that come with redhat work with any of the other free email services.

search google.com for 'free pop mail'. i've tried hotpop.com.

try YoSucker for Yahoo email:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/yosuck...pic_id=32%2C28

or gotmail for hotmail accounts:

http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/gotmail.php

what do i use for the "host" option

HOST=mail.yahoo.com

here's my config file (no ssl login)

<Connect Info>
HOST=mail.yahoo.com
</Connect>

<Login Details>
USERNAME=xwangbu

# Your Yahoo password - must be encrypted
# (use EncPasswd utility to encrypt it)
# it's under bin/ of the YoSucker folder - copy the output

# YoSucker-pr25a/bin/EncPasswd
# if prompted for ur passwd, enter ur yahoo pass
# then copy the enrcypted output

PASSWD=8479032740805840842304
SSL=0
</Login>

<Check Method>
FASTCHECK=0

</Check>

<Fetch Mail>
BOX=Inbox
# this, change to ur spool file
OUTFILE=/var/mail/xwangbu

PIPE=0

LEAVE=1

TRASH=1

LIMIT=55
</Fetch>

<Proxy Settings>
PROXY=proxy.pacific.net.ph

# Set your proxy port
PROXY_PORT=8080

# Set your proxy username
# Sorry, this feature has not yet been implemented
# PROXY_USER=your_proxy_username

# Set proxy password
# Sorry, this feature has not yet been implemented
# PROXY_PASS=XXXXXXXXX
</Proxy>

<Other>
# Select how much should Yo!Sucker show
# Options: quiet = 0, normal = 1
DEBUG=1

# Choose an action (i.e. a command to execute when new mail arrives
# ON_NEWMAIL="command attributes"

# This command will be executed when YoSucker finds no new incomming messages
# ON_NO_MAIL="command attributes"
</Other>

<Lethal Options>
CLEAN=0
</Lethal>

#************
now, using evolution, create a new account and set ur incoming options to local mail delivery.

just bumped into a better setup:

http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/

haven't tried it yet. but will try this weekend.