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Topic: configuring mutt for remote POP access

broohaha
Junior Member
Member # 262

posted December 19, 2001 12:50 PM

Hi. I'm trying to get my mutt configured to access my pop account at a remote server. According to http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-4.html#ss4.10 I need to "access the remote POP3 mailbox by selecting the folder pop://popserver/. " Thing is... what do they mean by "selecting the folder"?

And just to be sure.. was the --enable-pop flag included during configuration of the mutt binary?

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tunafat
Junior Member
Member # 274

posted January 06, 2002 03:09 PM

I am not sure if this is what you're looking for but in my .muttrc file for my unix account that accesses a remote pop3/imap server, i have:

set spoolfile={remote.hostname.com}INBOX

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broohaha
Junior Member
Member # 262

posted January 06, 2002 11:31 PM

Thanks. Actually I have since figured that part out. My .muttrc contains the following:

set pop_host="<mail.domain.com>"
set pop_delete=no # don't delete messages after download
set pop_user="<username>" # POP3 username

Thing is.... I'm now having an issue of the remote pop server (or is it mutt?) not being able to lock my /var/mail/<username> before downloading the mail.

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