John: If it's only your own mailbox you want to support, you need only configure a .fetchmailrc in your home directory telling where to get your mail from and how often to go looking for new mail messages. Your installation will install sendmail to handle outgoing mail (and local deliveries to you). PS: Fetchmail can also be configured to gather mail for all system users, but I have not myself done that. On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, John J. Boyer wrote: > Hello, > Thanks to those who answered my question on upgrading from RH 7.1 to 7.2. > Here's one last question before I switch to Linux except for some office > chores that require Windows. > I've been reading the manuals for Fetchmail and Pine, but I can't quite > figure out where to put the various information for setting up an e-mail > account. So I'm wondering if there is a howto that explains step by step > what to do to set upo an e-mail account in RedHat. > My current e-mail address, director@chpi.org is provided by our Webhosting > service. We also have DSL from a different company. To set up this account > on Linux, i will have to specify the webhosting company's server for > incoming mail, the DSL company's server for outgoing mail, the account name > assigned to be by the Webhosting company, my e-mail name, "director", and of > course my password with the Webhosting company. Where does all this > information go? > I also have an Internet Ministry account which is set up in a similar way. > I'm anxious to get off of Windows with its lack of security and instability. > Thanks. > John > > Computers to Help People, Inc. > http://www.chpi.org > 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp