Hi, I'm sorry I can't add anything to this thread, but can I ask that you do the detailed fetchmail thing anyway for us complete novices? Cheers. Tim -----Original Message----- From: speakup-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Geoff Shang Sent: 19 March 2001 12:07 To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: setting up email for linux. Hi: I've never seen the interface spec before. This might cause problems later depending on how you do net access, so you might want to remove it or at least comment it out. I was going to repost detailed instructions on how to do the fetchmail thing, but you seem to have it sussed already (well done). The permissions thing is to safeguard your password. Fetchmail will not permit you to have a .fetchmailrc file that is readable by anyone else. So you will want read and write access for you and no-one else. The easiest way to do this is: chmod 600 .fetchmailrc You could also do: chmod u=rw,go= .fetchmailrc if you find that clearer. Either way, it gives the user read/write access and the group and other users no access. You need these set or fetchmail will refuse to run. Geoff. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
