great, :), now put in a little perl, some regex triggers, and make voodo!!. ;-)) filters, bouncers, auto delete, forwarders, and if u are on 24hr dsl, well you can even set up lists.
Shaji K V ---------------------- all work and no gui? On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:24:25 -0700, "Jasmeet S. Virdi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Sorry mate, > Got it to work with fetchmail !!!!! Its got the features i wanted. Ok so > now i am on pine to send mails and fetchmail to check my mails every 5 > mins > :) > One more thing, wots the package that i use so i can type "mail" at the > prompt and start typing the mail and send it off. > > thanx for all the help !! > > ~virdi > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jasmeet S. Virdi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 11:27 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [ilugd]: Mail User Agent > > > Hi Shaji, > thx for replying mate, but i think fetchmail retrieves the mail to local > box, which i am strictly against, as who wud want half the mails at > home and > half at work. So i just want to check the mails on the server itself, > or my > b download the mails but let a copy remain on the server during nite or > over > the weekend when i am not at office. Pine does the job alrite for me, > but > the problem is that it doesn;t check the server every 150 seconds as > the > default build is supposed to, it only checks them when i launch it. :( > if u have seen outlook express or MSoutlook in internet mail mode, u'd know > there is a setting using which u can let the mails remain on the server > and > another piece of setting using which u can specify the time it shud > automatically check for mails. I want something like that !!! > Ne pointers ne one .. how do u guys check ur mails on a pop3 server then > !!!! r elm or Mutt ne gud, i am going to try them out neways .. and one > more > challenge, i am on a console only :) no gui stuff !!!! > > ~virdi > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shaji K V [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 9:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ilugd]: Mail User Agent > > > > Virdi, > > configure fetchmail. run fetchmailconf to configure the thing from > Xwindows. > the script might be broken especially on 7.3RH, but a first time should > give you a working setup. > Shaji K V > > > > > > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:09:43 -0700, "Jasmeet S. Virdi" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hi all, > > I just started off on linux mail clients, though i have been on linux for > > quite a while now, but checking pop mail in linux is my new endeavour. > > I > > configured pine and was able to view the messages the on the server as > > i > > wanted them to. (i mainly access my pop3 mailbox from home and i'd > > rather > > leave the messages on the server and go back the next day to office and > > download them using my bindows box). Now i am able to view the messages > > alrite but i have to stop and start pine to check for new messages. > > When > > ever i get a new message it doesn;t automatically pop up saying i have > > new > > mail. I think pine only checks for mail at login time, is there a way > > to > > make it check for mail after every 5 mins or something. Or shud i use > > some > > other mail agent like elm or may b mutt. The reason i dunt want to use > > sendmail is cos i dunt want to remove the mails from the server. If > > anyone > > has a better option please shoot, i dunt want to use bindows at home :) > > > > > > thanx > > ~virdi > > PS i have seen at time at one of my friends offices, they get a message > > in > > the shell in which they are working saying "new mail". How do i achieve > > that > > :) > > > > ================================================ > > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe > > in subject header. Check archives at > > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > > > > > > -- > Shaji K V > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > http://fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own > > ================================================ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe > in > subject header. Check archives at > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > > ================================================ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe > in > subject header. Check archives at > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > > ================================================ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe > in subject header. Check archives at > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > > -- Shaji K V [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
