Mutt gets mail when you ask it to by pressing G (that's capital G).
The standard debian mutt package has pop support compiled in -- at
least it does under potato. ssmtp doesn't have anything to do with
getting your mail; it handles your outgoing mail.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:46:04AM +0200, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote:
> Hi, thanks for all useful hints (I got new hope).
>
> What I did:
> * installed ssmtp and mutt
> * customized /etc/muttrc like Clayton told
> * dialled in with pppd (www-browser worked)
> * started mutt with: mutt -F /etc/muttrc
> * --- no mails downloaded from ISP-POP - no messages from mutt --- ?
>
> BTW:
> * What did I wrong?
> * My local Emailaddress is root@boneless - the Address the ISP knows is
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - do I have to make a "pipe" (like in fetchmail)?
> * How do I "tell" mutt to communicate with the ISP-account)
> (invoke the fetchmail function)?
> * Is the "standard" mutt (debian package) not compiled with POP3-support?
> * Is ssmtp to weak to support mutt this way?
>
> Thanks
> Dieter
>
> > Von: Clayton Carter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > If the ISP supports POP email, mutt can be used without
> > fetchmail. The relevant configuration variables (for your muttrc)
> > are:
> >
> > set pop_user =
> > set pop_pass =
> > set pop_host =
> > unset pop_delete
> > unset pop_last
> > set pop_port = 110
> >
> > Documentation on those is can be found at:
> >
> > http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html#ss6.3
> >
> >
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