Re: Mutt strating up.

[Erik Jakobsen <eja@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michelle Konzack wrote:

> Am 2005-04-07 17:22:06, schrieb Erik Jakobsen:
>
>  
>
> > I have that path:
> >
> > erikja@lajka3:/> ls -al /var/mail/erikja/
> > total 0
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 48 2005-03-31 13:36 .
> > drwxrwxrwt  3 root root 72 2005-03-31 13:36 ..
> >
> > Perhaps its a matter of permission ?. I can see, that its root:root that 
> > has the owenership.
> >    
>
> An empty Directory ?
>  
Yes.

> Become root and delete it.
>
>  
Now its done.

> "/var/mail/erikja" should be a file.
>
>  
I made it by touch erikja in /var/mail


ls -al /var/mail/erikja
-rw-r--r--  1 erikja users 0 2005-04-07 18:37 /var/mail/erikja

> > > 1. Most common solution: configure the "fetchmail" program to download
> > > your mail automatically from POP3 servers every x minutes, storing it
> > > into /var/mail/<username> where mutt can find it.
> > >      
> > I'm not very familiar with fetchmail.
> >    
>
> apt-get install fetchmai procmail
>  
They are already being installed by default:

lajka3:~ # rpm -q procmail
procmail-3.22-40

lajka3:~ # rpm -q fetchmail
fetchmail-6.2.5-54


> man fetchmail
>
>  
Ok.

>  __( '/etc/fetchmailrc' )______________________________________________
> /
> | ####################################################################
> | # Global
> | ####################################################################
> | set no bouncemail
> | set postmaster        blubber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | set invisible
> | 
> | ####################################################################
> | # Defaults
> | ####################################################################
> | defaults:
> |     antispam          -1 
> |     batchlimit        10
> |     warnings          300
> |     fetchall          
> |     expunge           1
> |     mda               "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
> |     dropstatus        
> | 
> | poll <your-isp-server-here> proto <pop3|imap>
> | user <your_account> pass <your_secret> is <your_local_account> here
> \______________________________________________________________________
>
>
>  

Well even if an rpm -ql tells me, that I should find fetchmailrc under 
/etc, its not visible ther.

> > Ok, I will read about fetchmail.
> >    
>
> OK
>
>  
>
> > Where can I find where its specified ?.
> >    
>
> ~/.bashrc
>
> MAIL=$HOME/Mail/
>
>  

There I cannot find any MAIL ?.

# Sample .bashrc for SuSE Linux
# Copyright (c) SuSE GmbH Nuernberg

# There are 3 different types of shells in bash: the login shell, normal 
shell
# and interactive shell. Login shells read ~/.profile and interactive shells
# read ~/.bashrc; in our setup, /etc/profile sources ~/.bashrc - thus all
# settings made here will also take effect in a login shell.
#
# NOTE: It is recommended to make language settings in ~/.profile rather 
than
# here, since multilingual X sessions would not work properly if LANG is 
over-
# ridden in every subshell.

# This might be helpful for Linux newbies who previously used DOS...
test -f /etc/profile.dos && . /etc/profile.dos

# Some applications read the EDITOR variable to determine your favourite 
text
# editor. So uncomment the line below and enter the editor of your 
choice :-)
#export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim
#export EDITOR=/usr/bin/mcedit

# For some news readers it makes sense to specify the NEWSSERVER 
variable here
#export NEWSSERVER=your.news.server

# If you want to use a Palm device with Linux, uncomment the two lines 
below.
# For some (older) Palm Pilots, you might need to set a lower baud rate
# e.g. 57600 or 38400; lowest is 9600 (very slow!)
#
#export PILOTPORT=/dev/pilot
#export PILOTRATE=115200

test -s ~/.alias && . ~/.alias

> > Erik
> >    
>
> Greetings
> Michelle
>
>  
Erik