When I began using Linux I started with
Red Hat 6.0 and used KDE's KMail for a MUA.
At that time I was checking 2 email accounts
for mail, which was easy to implement, but I wasn't
thrilled about the lack of configurability, and
wanted a text-based MUA.
I then decided to switch to Mutt, and with some
effort, configured my .muttrc to my satisfaction.
I used this config file to name my smtp server,
and settled for checking only mail in my primary
account.
But today I tried to use Mutt to check the other
account as well. Here's what I did:
created a .fetchmailrc like this...
poll pop3.uol.com.br proto pop3
user [EMAIL PROTECTED] pass secret1
fetchall keep
poll pop.a001.sprintmail.com proto pop3
user [EMAIL PROTECTED] pass secret2
fetchall keep
smtphost smtp.uol.com.br
When I ran fetchmail, I was happy to see that
messages were being read, and not deleted.
So happy in fact, that I went ahead and changed
both 'keep' entries to 'nokeep'
I noted that my mail for the first account was
ending up in /var/spool/mail/$USER and was
confident that all of the mail would end up there.
I thought I'd have to change my .muttrc line:
set spoolfile='/home/$USER/Mail/inbox'
to set spoolfile='/var/spool/mail/$USER'
but anyhow was satisfied that the mail ended up
SOMEWHERE.
But I was wrong; the mail for the second account
didn't end up in /var/spool/mail/$USER
I put the following in .muttrc so that I could
read my incoming mail, but after changing to
another directory, couldn't easily change back
(which I could easily do when /home/$USER/Mail/inbox
held inbound mail.)
Can anyone tell me:
1) where the mail from sprintmail might be?
2) which files to check for clues?
3) a good way to tell Mutt to read my inbox
in /var/spool/mail first? (I already tried
making my /home/$USER/Mail/inbox a symlink
to /var/spool/mail/$USER, and that seemed
not to work as well; the inbox was labeled
in a peculiar fashion--it became 'inbox@'.
I can tell you I'm running Red Hat 6.0 on a Pentium
Laptop, and haven't taken any steps to configure
sendmail, although it always runs as a process.
430 ? S 0:00 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25
thanks!
