[CentOS] [OT] Fetchmail and Mutt help

[Scott Robbins]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:32:44PM -0700, Todd wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I setup Fetchmail and wanted to use Mutt to read e-mail. I used to use
> Pine and I just am sick of GUI e-mail clients these days. Bloat,
> complication and unreliable. Pine was my first ever e-mail client. I
> prefer to use POP still as I want may mail on my machine at all times.

I much prefer getmail.

At any rate, you should probably set some sort of inbox in mutt. 

I have my own page on mutt, that some folks find useful.

http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/mutt.html

Note that it's basically for mutt 1.5, and I think CentOS may still use
mutt 1.4 (Though KB Singh had a 1.5 rpm, IIRC--in my case, I wound up
building from source.)


Not sure how fetchmail works these days--with getmail, I hand it off to
maildrop to do the sorting, but it also offers the option of just
putting everything into /var/spool/mail or elsewhere.

Regardless, mutt usually offers to create a $HOME/Mail directory, but
will also look in /var/spool/mail.  Hit c as in change directory, and it
will move around various places. 

There is, if you're more comfortable with Pine, alpine, which I believe
is pretty much the same thing.   (Based entirely on hearsay, haven't
used pine for years. )



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