[PLUG] E-Mail Question

[Seth Heckard]

paul.m.kuliniewicz.1 wrote:
> What do I need to do to be able to access my two e-mail accounts from
> my Linux box?  One of them is my Purdue account, which uses IMAP (as
> you already know).  The other one I have is a POP3 account.  I need to
> be able to read and send mail from each of these accounts, but I'm lost
> as to what I need to do to accomplish this.  It seems as though I need
> to set up a MTA on my machine to do the forwarding, but I don't know
> how to configure one for two different accounts using two different
> protocols, and to be able to select which outbound message heads for
> which one.
> 
> I'm running Debian unstable, and I already have mutt (the mail reader)
> and exim (MTA?) installed.  Can I do this with exim, or do I need to
> install sendmail instead?  And what basic configuration do I need to
> do with whichever MTA I use?
> 
> Thanks in advance.  I tried looking through some man pages, but I'm
> completely lost.  Once I get this done, I shouldn't need to reboot to
> Windows except to play a few games.

Mutt can be configured to read IMAP and POP3 mail, but for the maximum
flexibility you'll want to use fetchmail.  Mutt has very good
documentation, I suggest you read it if you really want to understand
how everything works.

You'll also need a configured MTA on you machine, and exim will work for
that.  However, you can always read/send mail using Netscape/Mozilla,
and no extra setups are needed.

Seth Heckard / sdh@purdue.edu