Daniel Dalton wrote:
How do I tell it to remove messages from the pop server?
You use the keyward "nokeep" which may or may not be the default (look at the fetchmail man page for more info).
And then what about the smtp stuff do I set that up in alpine?
Depends. Most people set up their linux machines so that mail retrieval and transmition are separate from programs like alpine, but you can do both within alpine if you want. The advantage to getting something like sendmail or exim to handle outgoing mail and fetchmail to handle incoming mail is that you can easily switch between mailers and they won't care, and also any mail that the system sends you will appear along with your regular mail rather than being in some separate folder.
If you get your mail transport to handle your outgoing mail, how you set it up will depend on which MTA you're running.
And how do I tell alpine to use fetch mail?
You don't. Alpine will, by default, look in the file pointed to by the $MAIL environment variable for your incoming mail.
And how do I choose to use port 995 for pop and 587 for smtp? And I also need to use ssl.
I've not used fetchmail with SSL but there appears to be info about this in the fetchmail man page. This page also seems to indicate that 995 is used by default for POP3 over SSL.
As for SMTP, again this depends on which MTA you are using and whether you want to use your MTA or do SMTP direct from Alpine.
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