Jeff, Thank you very much for your thoughtful reply. I will take your advice. Hugh On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 08:18, Jeff Ratliff wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 06:49:08AM -0400, Hugh Crissman wrote: > > I am running FC2. I am using evolution as my mail reader under X. All is > > good with that. But, I would also like to ssh into my box and read my > > mail with mutt. When I launch mutt it says no ~/mail directory exists, > > so I let it create one and it proceeds to an empty mutt interface. I am > > trying to vies the same mail and as I view when I am local and using > > evolution. What I am missing? I have googled around and read about > > mutt's .muttrc and postfix's main.cf (postfix is my MTA) config files > > but I am not sure I am on the right track. At this point I do not want > > to run a mail server, I just want to be able to ssh in and read, send, > > and receive just like when I am local using X and evolution. Thanks in > > advance to anyone who can point me in the right direction. > > Hugh, > I do exactly what you're describing. I've got one box that sits > there and grabs mail from my ISP all day long, and I SSH in from > wherever and read it with mutt. > > Mutt by default expects to find your mail in /var/spool/mail/<user>. > Mutt only reads mail, and expects some other program to deal with > sending (usually sendmail) and receiving (usually fetchmail). You > can get around this, though, because mutt DOES have built in POP > and IMAP support. Use the 'c' command to change mailboxes, and at > the prompt enter pop://popserver/ for the new mailbox. Popserver > is whatever your mailserver is (usually mail.yourISP.net). It will > then ask four username and password on that server, and log you in. > >From there you can read mail directly on the server. That way > you can leave the mail there and not delete messages so that you > can still use Evolution if you want. > > The manual explains the syntax for IMAP if you use IMAP rather > than POP3. (probably imap://imapserver/) > > A more permanent solution is to install fetchmail (should be on > Fedora CDs) and let it run in daemon mode to log in and download > your mail. Then when you start mutt your mail WILL be in > /var/spool/mail/<user>. You'd also probably need to reconfigure > sendmail, because you'll be sending mail as > <user>@localhost.localdomain rather than your real E-mail address, > which makes some mailservers think you're a spammer. > > Go to www.mutt.org and check out "Mutt overview for newbies." I > found it to be a great resource. Mutt is great, but as with any > extremely powerful tool, it takes a while to learn to use it and > configure it properly.. >
