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[Hugh Crissman]

Jeff,

Thank you very much for your thoughtful reply. I will take your advice.

Hugh

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 08:18, Jeff Ratliff wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 06:49:08AM -0400, Hugh Crissman wrote:
> > I am running FC2. I am using evolution as my mail reader under X. All is
> > good with that. But, I would also like to ssh into my box and read my
> > mail with mutt. When I launch mutt it says no ~/mail directory exists,
> > so I let it create one and it proceeds to an empty mutt interface. I am
> > trying to vies the same mail and as I view when I am local and using
> > evolution. What I am missing? I have googled around and read about
> > mutt's .muttrc and postfix's main.cf (postfix is my MTA) config files
> > but I am not sure I am on the right track. At this point I do not want
> > to run a mail server, I just want to be able to ssh in and read, send,
> > and receive just like when I am local using X and evolution. Thanks in
> > advance to anyone who can point me in the right direction.
> 
> Hugh,
>   I do exactly what you're describing. I've got one box that sits 
> there and grabs mail from my ISP all day long, and I SSH in from
> wherever and read it with mutt. 
> 
> Mutt by default expects to find your mail in /var/spool/mail/<user>. 
> Mutt only reads mail, and expects some other program to deal with
> sending (usually sendmail) and receiving (usually fetchmail). You 
> can get around this, though, because mutt DOES have built in POP
> and IMAP support. Use the 'c' command to change mailboxes, and at
> the prompt enter pop://popserver/ for the new mailbox. Popserver
> is whatever your mailserver is (usually mail.yourISP.net). It will
> then ask four username and password on that server, and log you in. 
> >From there you can read mail directly on the server. That way 
> you can leave the mail there and not delete messages so that you 
> can still use Evolution if you want. 
> 
> The manual explains the syntax for IMAP if you use IMAP rather 
> than POP3. (probably imap://imapserver/)
> 
> A more permanent solution is to install fetchmail (should be on
> Fedora CDs) and let it run in daemon mode to log in and download
> your mail. Then when you start mutt your mail WILL be in 
> /var/spool/mail/<user>. You'd also probably need to reconfigure 
> sendmail, because you'll be sending mail as 
> <user>@localhost.localdomain rather than your real E-mail address,
> which makes some mailservers think you're a spammer.
> 
> Go to www.mutt.org and check out "Mutt overview for newbies." I
> found it to be a great resource. Mutt is great, but as with any
> extremely powerful tool, it takes a while to learn to use it and
> configure it properly.. 
>