Ultranet is my ISP...and they do not support Linux

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Most ISPs do not support Linux. Look into fetchmail. You can run fetchmail 
as a daemon, or as a user process. It contacts your POP3 server, and 
downloads the email to the standard Linux/Unix mailbox (eg. 
/var/spool/xxxxx).
Your user name on the POP3 server does not need to be the same. If you do 
not have fetchmail, you should be able to download it from one of the Red 
Hat mirrors. Here are the settings I have running fetchmail as a daemon. 
Note you can poll multiple pop servers I run mine every 3 mins.

---------------fetchmail script for /etc/rc.d/init.d:
#! /bin/sh
# Copyright (c) 1996 S.u.S.E. GmbH Fuerth, Germany.  All rights reserved.
#
# Author: kfr at suse.de
#
# /sbin/init.d/fetchmail
#
# plese edit /root/.fetchmailrc
. /etc/rc.config

case "$1" in
    start)
	echo "Starting fetchmail-daemon"
        /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 180 -a -L /var/log/fetchmail  -f 
/root/.fetchmailrc
       ;;
    stop)
       echo -n "Shutting down fetchmail-daemon"
       /usr/bin/fetchmail -quit
       echo
       ;;
    *)
       echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
       exit 1
 esac

exit 0
----------------------------- .fetchmailrc from root
# Configuration created Sun Aug 22 13:05:28 1999 by fetchmailconf
set postmaster "postmaster"
poll pop.ne.mediaone.net with proto POP3 user <myPOPuid> is <MyLinuxUID> 
pass <myPassword>
--------------------------------------------------------------

"Kevin M. Gleason" wrote:
> Is there anyone using Ultranet for their dial-up connections that can
> help me update settings to receive my email using RH Linux? I was able
> to send myself and email but unable to receive it (on the sending
> machine) and got absolutely no help from Ultranet.com
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org


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