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Linux.com: Fetching Email with Mutt

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 26, 2005

“What do you look for in an email program? You may find it in
Mutt, an easy-to-use text-based messaging client. Here’s all you
need to know to get started with Mutt.

“To read mail from a POP account using Mutt, you need to have a
mail transfer agent such as Sendmail and a mail delivery agent such
as Procmail installed, as well as a program that can connect to a
POP server and download your emails, such as fetchmail. Most
standard *nix systems, have all these programs installed…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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