Help setting up Pine/Mutt

[dh003i2]

I'm having some trouble setting up Pine and Mutt. Firstly, for Mutt, where do I enter setup information? For Pine, I know where to enter the information, but can't get my e-mail accounts working.

I use a Road Runner and University of Rochester e-mail account. For the University of Rochester e-mail account, here is the relevant information:

[DefconAlpha]

from my understanding, pine and mutt are mail readers, not fetchers. the *easiest* thing to do (rather than make the readers go to the pop source, which is possible, however clumsy) is to use something like getmail or fetchmail. Fetchmail is a widely used mail fetcher, but it can sometimes be a little bit difficult to configure. Getmail is a very easy to use and configure, but not as widely used (that's what i use)

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[s1th]

As the other poster mentioned, for retrieving your mail, fetchmail is a very good choice.
You ofcourse have the option of retrieving and deleting your email from the pop3 server or retrieving your email and letting it stay on the server.
Fetchmail comes with a tool called fetchmailconf which can help you setup fetchmail.
A simple .fetchmailrd file would look like:

poll your.mailserver.here with proto POP3
user foo there with password yourpwd is foo here

Another choice is to configure mutt for IMAP4 connections (if the mailserver of your provider supports it and your mutt version is compiled with IMAP support).

This is done the following way:

set folder=imap://your.mailserver.here #where I keep my mailboxes
set spoolfile=imap://your.mailserver.here/INBOX # where my new email is located

Here are some additional IMAP settings for mutt:

set imap_home_namespace=""
set imap_keepalive=900
set imap_list_subscribed=no
set imap_passive=yes
set imap_peek=yes
set imap_servernoise=yes
set imap_user=foo

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