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Re: Pine

Hello

> 1./ Setup sendmail to talk to your ISP's SMTP server.
> 2./ Setup procmail. This should be as simple as installing it.
> 3./ Setup fetchmail to talk to your pop3 server.
> 4./ Setup whatever MUA you want. (Pine, elm, mutt etc etc).

I've had a look at a few man pages as well as "Linux in a Nutshell" 
and "Running Linux" from O'Reilly.  The general idea for dialup is 
that I set up fetchmail and sendmail. I've tried the recommended 
approach to setting up fetchmail.  They say that you should connect 
and then manually type in some commands into a terminal window to 
check that mail is downloading properly.  I've tried.....

isdnctrl dial ippp0 (connects)
fetchmail --protocol POP3  --username  "richard"  "domain.co.uk"
it said "enter password for r.ibbotson [at] zetnet.co.uk".  Which I did.
and it came back with.....
fetchmail:  POP3 connection to zetnet.co.uk failed: No route to host.
fetchmail:  Query status=2

So, whatever query status 2 means then that's why it won't download.

	The man pages recommend that I do this before configuring fetchmail 
under /.fetchmail.rc.  No idea where to go from here :-(

Thanks


Richard
Sheffield UK

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