Now How Do I Setup, Get And Send My E-mails?

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Setting-Up Fetchmail

A program called 'fetchmail' is used to retrieve your e-mail from your ISP, here's how to set it up.

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Log-on as 'root' and enter:

pico ~/.fetchmailrc

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Enter:

poll mail.globalnet.co.uk proto POP3 pass hellbent fetchall

...changing 'mail.globalnet.co.uk' to your incoming POP3 account address and 'hellbent' to your dial-up account password.

Note

You don't have to include 'pass password' if you're worried about others logging on as 'root' and discovering your dial-up password, but for most people this isn't an issue, since it saves you having to enter your password everytime you fetch your mail.

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Save the file using Crtl+o and then exit Pico using Ctrl+x.

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Enter:

chmod 600 ~/.fetchmailrc

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How To Collect Your E-mail

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Enter:

startx

...to start X Windows.

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Select Programs > Networking > Usernet and select the 'ppp0' button to make a dial-up connection.

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Bring up a shell window and enter:

fetchmail -u thebits

...replacing 'thebits' with your dial-up username.

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How To Set-up Pine To Read and Send Mail

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Enter:

pine

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Press 's' to set-up Pine, then press 'c' to configure your mail account.

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Using the up and down cursor keys and the 'a' key, enter the following information:

personal-name    = Put your dial-up username here
user-domain      = The part after @ in your e-mail address
smtp-server      = Your SMTP mail address
nntp-server      = Your news server address

Here's what my configuration looks like:

personal-name    = thebits
user-domain      = globalnet.co.uk
smtp-server      = smtpmail.globalnet.co.uk
nntp-server      = news.globalnet.co.uk

With all this set-up, reading and sending e-mails is now a piece of cake.

By Laurence Hunter laurence@thebits.co.uk

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