-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:09:42 PM +0100, Sauro Cesaretti wrote: > Hi all > I'm looking for a client for reading email from pop3 server under linux. > I tried to configure fetchmail but I think its too complex. Fetchmail really probably is your best bet for downloading from pop accounts. It isn't as complicated as it looks. Just create a file called .fetchmailrc (note the dot) in your home directory. In this file put the following lines replacing the information for your specific account. poll your.pop.server.here with protocol pop3 user popuser there is systemuser here password "popaassword" You can have as many of these sections as you need for all your accounts. The popuser is your user name on the pop server, and systemuser is your username on your own system. If they are not different you can just leave out the user part. Now if you want to fetch your mail just run fetchmail and it will arrive in your local mailbox. If you want to get your mail automatically every 5 minutes just use "fetchmail -d300". You can put that in your .bash_profile to have your mail checked whenever your logged in. You can make fetchmail a lot more complicated than this, but this should be enough to get you started. And if you think fetchmail is complicated just wait until you want to use procmail one of these days. > There is something more simple to use and more immediate? > I'm waiting for your reply. You can also use mutt to fetch mail from a pop server, but it really isn't as easy as fetchmail, though it may be more immediate. HTH - -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCHG1I5JK61UXLur0RAywsAJ9RCIOZUYRvrF2GmNuUr2NQCNKg/gCfVtPV R0tOzWAMga7nt5HYCMAdgJY= =Rdg4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list