command-line email success
 

I don't have the latest and greatest computer hardware. It does great 99% of the time no matter how many programs I have running. That is, until I run a web browser and an email program at the same time.

So, I decided how nice it would be to set up pine to read and send email. I didn't have a clue about how to do it. I searched on google and different linux sites and found nothing. Even asked here on LQ with no responses.

Well, I was browsing through and drooling at my favorite store Barnes and Noble. I decided to take a look at Red Hat Linux 9 in 24 Hours. I saw an entry on fetchmail which I had never heard of before. WOW, it said all you had to do is put 2 simple lines in a .fetchmailrc file to recieve mail and make a few changes to options in pine's configuration options (email address and smtp server). I got home and tried it. Wallah, I'm now using command-line email.

Success at last :D

And those two little lines were????

I gave up on using mail from the cli since I couldn't find the answer either.

Share the knowledge please... :)

Actually it was one line. I mistakingly thought it was a script.

poll [incoming mail server] protocol [your protocol mine is pop3] username [your username] password [your password]

chmod 700 .fetchmailrc

Then go into Pine and press "s" for setup, then "c" to configure and for "user-domain" put in your email address and "smtp-server" put in your isp's smtp server.

That's it

Very cool! I remember using Pine on the Unix boxes back in college (about 15 years ago.

I've been wanting to get Mutt working........you sparked my interest. :)

I'm going to start playing with Mutt. Let me know how it goes. I may need some pointers. :)