Mutt Basic

[Leonard Chatagnier]

Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 02:12:41AM -0500, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>> Peter Garrett wrote:
>>>        the file is local or not. this way is a bit clumsy, and we 
>>>        probably want to use TLS or something similar rather than a 
>>>        plain text login. ~/.muttrc allows us to do this.
>>>  
>> Ok, tried this with:
>> mutt -f 
>> imaps://lenc5570@sbcglobal.net:mypasswd@pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com/INBOX
>> output:Could not connect to pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com (Interrupted system 
>> call).
>> and with:
>>  mutt -f 
>> maps://lenc5570@sbcglobal.net:mypasswd@sbcglobal.yahoo.com/INBOX to get 
>> rid of pop.
>> output:Could not find the host "sbcglobal.yahoo.com"
>> Also tried with imap ipo pop with this output:
>> Could not find the host "imap.sbcglobal.yahoo.com"
>> Either yahoo was no imap server or I'm missing something.
>> Also didn't work with mail ipo imap, imaps, or pop.
>> Perhaps you will clarify or am I missing some prerequisite.
>>
> OK - as an experiment I tried connecting with:
> 
> mutt -f pop://pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.com
> 
> It appears to connect, and asks for user name (obviously I didn't 
> continue, since I have no account with yahoo)
> 
> I assume it would proceed to asking for a password.
> 
> Try it and see what happens.
> 
> Peter
> 
Thanks Peter for your trouble.  Yes, it does work and my mail was 
downloaded to Mutt.  FYI, I also installed fetchyahoo and tried it but 
the Feisty version is buggy and gave a bunch of errors, connected but 
failed download. One of the messages suggested upgrading to the latest
version at SF, so did and after having to copy the executable to 
/usr/bin it worked great.  How do you run a Perl executable, 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w, (at the top of the file) from the extracted/install 
directory. The executable bits were active for all.  I tried just the 
file name then "./fetchyahoo" with no errors just the prompt returning. 
  Finally just had to copy it to /usr/bin before --version gave the 
right ver #.  Still don't think all the documentation got installed.
Anyway maybe fetchyahoo will be of help for the yahoo users, hope so.
Also, not able to download mail to mutt but can't send/reply/forward 
yet.  Will look at Postfix next after setting up Muttrc.  Thanks again 
for everyones help,
Len
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