Setting up mail

[Christian]

Hello,
Many thanks for the info will give it a try!
Many thanks,
Christian


On 2006-07-28 at 17:29 Christian Schoepplein wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:21:12PM +0200, Christian wrote:
>>I want to set up mail under my Debian. I know that fetchmail exists 
>>but how do I set it to automatically retreive messages? I want to start 
>>mutt and then I can view all my new mail. 
>
>man fetchmailrc
>
>See also the file
>
>/etc/default/fetchmail
>
>>my provider use SSL and SMTP authentication. Any good resource for 
>>this?
>
>smtp is _not_ related to fetchmail. Fetchmail uses pop3/imap to retrive 
>messages from a server. smtp is used to send out mails.
>
>You need to setup a local mailserver to send messages, I prefere 
>postfix which can be configured easily. postfix is able to authenticate 
>against a smarthost, ssl is supported.
>
>>Christian
>
>Regards,
>
>  Christian
>
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