rhad wrote: > > 1) understand how exactly mutt recieves email. In my first several > attempts, I slowly gathered the impression that mutt wanted me to > configure at least sendmail and fetchmail in addition to mutt. I.e.: > that mutt acts only as a viewing agent to the standard unix mail > programs. In the successive attempts to understand sendmail and > fetchmail (neither of which I have ever used--at least knowingly) I > have become slightly lost. The mutt manual delves, IMHO, more into > mutt configuration and uses, than actually explaining how the heck to > get it to recieve email.
well mutt can also retrieve mail via POP3 or IMAP. if your accounts have IMAP access, you might consider using that. if you have 3 incoming accounts, using fetchmail may, indeed, be a good idea. mutt can be a little overwhelming at first; i've found simply looking through other peoples' .muttrcs online fairly instructive. w/r/t sendmail; your suse machine probably already has some sort of MTA (either sendmail or postfix most likely) installed; if this is the case, you can use this. > I want mutt to handle three email accounts: this one, at my > university, and 2 yahoo accounts. I do not live at the university, > but am on DSL in the surrounding area. Therefore, I have one > dedicated outgoing mail server for all of the accounts (swbell-DSL), > and 3 pop servers for incoming mail. I use suse linux 7.3, and I keep > all my machines behind a NAT-based router with a static IP. well probably the simplest solution would be to use fetchmail to download mail from all 3 accounts, and possibly procmail or something similar to sort the messages after downloading it. i'm not a big expert on fetchmail, since i've never had to use it, but it's supposed to be fairly simple.
