Email

Email was a bit interesting since I had this working on my Red Hat box, but really couldn't remember how. I modified my old .getmailrc based on info here, and then needed to add a procmailrc which I found here. The getmail site has a way to set up a cron job, but I just run getmail from the command line, as I don't get much volume on my home account. Both of my files follow.
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procmailrc

		# .procmailrc
		# routes incoming mail to appropriate mailboxes
		PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
		MAILDIR=$HOME/mail   # all mailboxes are in .mailspool/
		DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/ddawson
		LOGFILE=/dev/null
		SHELL=/bin/sh
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getmailrc

		#getmailrc
		verbose = 0                    # Print status messages to stdout
		timeout = 120                   # We're on a good network; time out POP3 connections 
		after 120 seconds
		readall = 1                     # Retrieve all messages
		delete = 1                      # Delete all messages from the server when we're done
		message_log = ~/.getmail/log   # Log retrieval and delivery here

		[Earthlink Account]
		server = mail.earthlink.net
		username = ********
		password = "*******"
		postmaster =  "|/usr/bin/procmail" # Deliver all mail to this durectory

==================================================================================== After setting both of these files up properly, running getmail delivered mail from the earthlink server with no trouble. When you use getmail to fetch you email, you will here an audible beep at the delivery of each email, and if you are using the console or switch back to it will see a brief text on each email. This behavior is caused by the default /etc/profile which has the ``biff y'' setting. You can alter this to ``biff n'' for the whole system, or you can put the appropriate change in individual .bashrc or .cshrc