Have you tried mutt? It doesn't require you to use fetchmail and it is a more customizable and nicer mailer to work with than pine, but that is just my opinion. At 08:39 AM 12/7/01 -0500, you wrote: >Hello, >Here is what I tried to get my e-mail up. I haven't tried everything that >was suggested yet, because until e-mail is working i can only run Linux at >night. >The command >fetchmail -v -u director@chpi02 mail.voyagerhosting.net >produced first a reqauest for my password. then it tried the various >protocols and settled on pop3. Then it said "invalid user name or password". >Next I tried >fetchmail -v -u director chpi.org >This seemed to work better, so I tried it without the -v, then ran pine. But >there were no messages. I assome that fetchmail knows where to put messages >so Pine can find them. >Next, I wrote a .fetchmailrc file with the lines >poll chpi.org proto pop3 >user director pass *))&&^^ >then >fetchmail -v >first said it was querying the server using pop3 then it said >status=2 (SOCKET) >Running fetchmail without the -v again produced no messages. This address >gets a lot of mail, so there should have been some. the -c option also >produced nothing. >I also have a yahoo e-mail address for monitoring mailing lists. When I >typed >fetchmail -v -u techbrl mail.yahoo.com >It asked for my password, then tried IMAP, then just sat there until I >pressed control+c. >I hope these details put us closer to the solution to the problem. Your help >is very much appreciated. >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