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Re: automaticly retrieving mails



* Theo Vermeulen <theo@xxxxxxxxx> [05-30-04 17:01]:
> 
> My current mail-server, where I can connect to using ssh, and reading
> the mails on the machine itself, is shutting down soon, and I have
> another address ready, but the problem is that it only works with pop3
> ... I never used it before, but I managed to set pop_host pop_user and
> pop_pass already, but I was wondering if there was an option to
> automaticly retrieve the emails everytime I start mutt ..

Then use mutt to *read* mail, which *was/is* it's intended purpose and
lookinto fetchmail to retrieve your mail.  Fetchmail can get mail from
apop/pop?/iamp and is easily configured.  Then utilize procmail to
deliver/sort to specific mailboxes/folders.
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