Re: retrieving email (guestions by a newbie)

[James McPherson - TSG Engineer <James McPherson Sun COM>]

On 31 Oct 2001, 11:59:04 AM Paul E Condon wrote:
> I also am trying to retrieve email using balsa, but my situation seems 
> to be different from that of Mike McCue. I also have RedHat 7.1 
> workstation. The version of balsa that comes from RedHat is balsa-1.1.1. 
> I have email service via an ISP using PPP. I have been retrieving my 
> email using Mozilla 0.7 and various versions of netscape. Now I want to 
> try out balsa.

please, do yourself a favour and get a more recent copy - 1.2.1!

> When I start balsa I find myself in a setup script that asks me for my 
> local mail directory, and my inbox file. My problem is that I don't 
> have, to my knowledge, an inbox file on my computer. My incoming mail is 
> being held at my ISP and I must set up balsa to fetch it. What do I type 
> in order to accomplish this set up?

What I do (since my inbox is on an imap server) is say that my mailboxen are
inbox	/var/mail/jmcp
trash	/home/jmcp/Mail/trash.balsa
sentbox	/home/jmcp/Mail/sentbox.balsa
outbox	/home/jmcp/Mail/outbox.balsa

and then when balsa starts up properly I add a new mailbox (remote imap mailbox
in my case) and make sure that when it is configured I select it and "mark
folder 
as inbox" which places it at the top of the pane.

hth,
James C. McPherson
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