How To Receive e-mail

In this page I'll try to explain some methods to receive e-mail using POP3. There are a lot of e-mail clients around. Some of the most common are pine , elm, exmh . I have to say that I don't prefer to use them to retrieve POP3 e-mail. Instead, I think it's better to use fetchmail... It's really simple and reliable. Just create a new user with the same username at your ISP and use one of the ...

If you use IMAP...
fetchmail [ISP url]

If you use POP3...
fetchmail -p POP3 [ISP url]

if your use Popclient
fetchmail -v [ISP url]

...commands to retrieve mail. It askes for your password before it insertes them to your mail spool . After it downloaded, use your favorite e-mail client and read them.Elm, is my favorite...

If you use any version of Netscape at your Linux machine just use it... Because it's more easy to use and something you probably are used to...