Now that you're online, you can start using your own Pine. But, first, you need to get mail delivery working on your system. Attached here is a simple file that goes in your home directory. Call it .fetchmailrc and be sure to notice the dot at the beginning of the filename. That makes it a hidden file. You will need to edit it with your own settings. The 60 number at the top means "get my mail every 60 seconds." The 'poll' command tells fetchmail what place to go looking for your mail. You can put the pop address for your isp's mail server here, but I recommend putting the ip address instead, because it saves one step. There's no reason to make Linux look up the address every 60 seconds, after all. If you don't know what this address should be, your isp can tell you, and they certainly will. I'm assuming your isp makes mail available as pop3, but it could be imap, in which case we just change the proto (which is short for protocol) to imap--though that may require a bit more in settings, I don't recall. Let's cross that bridge only if we need to. Now, put in your username and password. Lastly, you may need to start fetchmail. Still as yourself, enter the command: fetchmail and press enter. PS: You can make this run allthe time by adding it to the end of your .bashrc file in your home directory which you can also edit with pico. It doesn't hurt that you're not on line all the time. It will just magically work when you do connect. -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org -------------- next part -------------- set daemon 60 poll [your.isp.address] proto pop3 user [your.username] pass "your.password"
