Re: [SLUG] Procmail question or mail in general

From: Michael Manchester (mchester@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri May 25 2001 - 12:45:34 EDT


Norb, Thanks alot. God I Love Slug.

You have a good one.
see ya all in a Week.

--- Norbert Cartagena <niccademous@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Michael Manchester wrote:
> >
> > I would like to thank everyone that responded.
> That's
> > what I love about the Slug group.
> > I have one more question. Does Netscape have to be
> up
> > and running for it get my mail? I'm guessing it
> would
> > have to be.
>
>
> Yes. However, I believe if you use something like
> Balsa (I'm not sure
> about Evolution), I think that by merely having
> Gnome running you get
> your mail. Either way, the easiest and fastes way to
> go about this is by
> doing Netscape.
>
> Here's the step by step.
>
> 1) Go to EDIT -> PREFERENCES...
>
> 2) In the PREFERENCES... window that pops up, expand
> MAIL AND NEWSGROUPS
>
> 3) Set your identity in the IDENTITY menu
>
> 4) In the MAIL SERVERS Menu, go to ADD and put the
> server name
> pop.mail.yahoo.com (you said you were using Yahoo!,
> right?). Then add
> your username (mchester) and the intreval in minutes
> that you want to
> check your mail at. Back in the ADD menu, set your
> "Outgoing Mail" Mail
> to smtp.mail.yahoo.com and set your "outgoing server
> username."
>
> 5) Go through the other options and place your
> setting how you want.
> Really, all that is left is newsgroups and "fluff":
> ie - "do you want
> HTML formatting", " Do ou want to recieve
> receipts"... blah blah blah.
> Either way, you're pretty much done.
>
> The first time that you try your account you should
> ger a propt for your
> passworrd. Put "remember it always" or something
> like that, and You're
> set to go.
>
>
> WARINING - In my experience, when you have Netscape
> Mail running for a
> REALLY long time, it's been my experience that
> Netscape Mail tends to do
> some quirky things, like lose your pass word and
> start asking you for
> it. Not that it will necessarily happen to you, but
> it might prevent
> your getting your mail after a while. YOu'll want to
> try out netscape
> for a few days, running it continuosly to see if
> that happens with your
> version.
>
>
> Or your could try another mail client. Really, you
> have all the info you
> need right here (smtp and pop3 stuff). All you need
> to do is *pop* set
> all the settings and you're done. Maybe you can try
> something a bit
> steadier, like Kmail? Wanring, though, Kmail
> sometimes explodes if
> packages are too big (like 4 megs and higer). But,
> you can try what you
> wish.
>
>
> Norb
>
>
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