Re: rmail Setup

[Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com>]

Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
>    I think that my problem is that I have just absolutely no clue how to
>    configure rmail properly.
>
> The question is very basic in fact. Depending on how you want to
> fetch your mail, the setup is different.
>
> You have the option to either give all power to rmail and thus it
> will take in charge the fetching and displaying of your mail.
> This method needs some configuration to inform rmail where and
> how to retrieve your mails. You have to be sure that movemail has
> been compiled with --with-pop option.
>
> Or you can use external third party tools such as
> fetchmail/procmail to fetch your mail from your pop3 server.
> Advantage of this method is that you simply configure fetchmail
> once and you have nothing to do in rmail. M-x rmail RET will
> automaticall retrieve your message from your local spool.
>
> Please, consider reading GNU Emacs manual[1] or check Rmail info
> page[2].
>
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Movemail.html
> [2] C-h i m Rmail RET
>
> 	Xavier

Also consider "getmail" over "fetchmail".