I got mails by "fetchmail", but I don't know how to read them, who can tell me? Thanks!

Fetchmail downloads mail to your local mail server. Under normal circumstances, you won't need it at all. Normally, you just need to install/use a mail client to download the mail from your ISP into a local mailbox.

That said, you need a mail client that can read mail straight out of the system mailbox. I'd suggest you use Pine if you aren't running a local POP3 or IMAP server.

Which brings me to my better suggestion. Check that you have imapd installed (it'll show up when you type "which imapd" as root). If you've got it installed, edit your inetd.conf and uncomment the imap line. Restart inetd, and you'll be running an imap server locally. Then use whatever mail client you want, and tell it to use an IMAP server, and that the server is "localhost".

And if you're wondering why I suggest doing that, imap is a better mail protocol than pop3. It allows you to store your mailbox files on the server, which means that when you decide to switch from one mail client to another, you don't need to backup your mailbox and transfer the e-mails. It also means that, when fully implemented server-side, you can access all of your e-mails from any number of different computers, without the need to set them up specially for it. The only reason most ISP's don't provide imap service is that it requires a lot of extra hard drive space to archive mail. If you're running imap locally, it won't require any more space than your mail client would, but when you've only got 10mb server-side at most ISP's, you find that quickly fills up and they have to provide more. 100mb is more in line with what you'd need for long-term imap use. (my own mailbox on my mail server takes up 23mb, and it's not the largest on the server).


HTH.

I see, thank you.
I'll try it.

i get my mail with fetchmail running as a daemon, then read it with mutt. you can also look at it right now with the mail command.