hi john. I've got fetchmail here and I've installed/uncompressed it and now I have an error popping up complaining about the permissions. here is just a little bit of my .fetchmailrc file set daemon 300 # Poll at 5-minute intervals defaults interface "sl0/192.168.0.1" # SLIRP standard address user shauno is shauno fetchall # Use this for production poll mailserver.goanna.net.au protocol POP3: no dns, password nottelling: any help from anyone out their would be greatly appreciated. Shaun.. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Covici" <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 5:02 PM Subject: Re: setting up email for linux. > I would recomend using fetchmail -- I don't know about slackware > packages, I have been using RedHat and Debian. > > > "Shaun Oliver" <shauno at sgtnet.com.au> writes: > > > Hi guys I need to know how to set up my email programm for linux please? > > I'm using zipslack at the moment. no correct that zipspeak although there's no difference accept for speakup. <grin> > > I've only got sendmail and procmail and for the client I've got mailx. > > what do I do to setup my pop3 account with my isp? > > Oh yeah while I'm here, how do I enter urls in lynx? I know that all this has probably been covered a few months ago but to be truthful, I had to delete alot of my emails so I didn't have a chance to read them all carefully.. > > Thanks for all your help. > > Shaun.. > > -- > John Covici > covici at ccs.covici.com > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >