Hi Sandip, welcome to the beautiful world of Linux ;-). First thing to tell you is that, in contrast to the Windows world, there are always several ways of doing things in UNIX.
Mail handling is extremely flexible. You can use a very simple setup or a more flexible one, depending on your needs and (dis)likes: - The simple setup comprises some mailclient (e.g. KMail, Mozilla/Netscape, Evolution, Mutt, and so on) fetch mails directly from your POP3 and IMAP accounts and sending mail through your ISP's mailserver. - The more flexible setup is most commonly found in UNIX: fetchmail fetching mail from various POP3 accounts and delivering it through the local mailserver (in my case Exim). Each user can have its mail filtered through procmail rules to segregate the mails into different mailboxes. You can then use a mailclient to access those mailboxes and send your mails through your local mailserver. This requires your mailserver to be configured for local delivery only and a smarthost for all non-local mails. (Exim can easily be configured this way.) - You can take the mail setup one step further to gain location & client independence by accessing your mailboxes through an IMAP server (in my case courier-imap) on localhost. My reasons for wanting those two capabilities is that I want a text based client (Mutt) when on the road and without proper mouse and keyboard and a GUI client (KMail, Ximian Evolution, SquirrelMail) when at my dockingstation. Ofcourse I can send you my config files and a more detailed description of my setup if you'd like. Auke On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 10:57, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > i am new to linux. > > i have been using mail 'windows' way. use some program like popcheck to > download headers from various pop3 accounts. delete headers i dont want > to download off the server. finally, use mozilla to download the > remaining messages. > > now, i am told, unix has better ways of handling mail. i tried setting > up exim for outgoing mails. and hopefully, will be done with it soon. > > in the meantime, i tried my hand at fetchmail. i already can do > fetchmail -c without error. > > now, someone tell me, > > 1. how do i run fetchmail? as a daemon or what? > > 2. can i ask fetchmail to download only headers and delete unwanted > headers off the server only? > > 3. after fetchmail fetches mail, where will it put it? > > 4. are there any easy to configure utilities that will segregate mail > finally downloaded? > > 4. which software do i use to read the mail fetched by fetchmail? can > i use mozilla? > > 5. any other stuff that might be useful/ interesting etc. > > thanx in advance > > - sandip > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- PGP: 0x4A34DD6D, http://bunny.sourceforge.net/
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