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From: Radek Kozlowski <radek@raadradd.com>
To: Ben Washington-Yule <benwy_01@yahoo.com.au>, albi <albi@scii.nl>
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On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 12:33:14PM +0200, albi wrote:
> > You have mentioned quite a few terms that I am unfamiliar with
> > (fetchmail, remote, ssh). I have started reading the mail section of
> > the
> handbook at the moment but I would like to know if there are any other
> resources I should be looking at regarding mail?
> 
> i recommend using fetchyahoo for reading your yahoo-mail on your own
> machine (http://www.freshports.org/mail/fetchyahoo/), you can even
> choose a https-transfer with it afair Then install mutt
> (/usr/ports/mail/mutt) and make yourself a good ~/.muttrc Take a look
> at http://www.mutt.org, there's loads of help and examples for mutt
> there

If Yahoo supports POP3 then all you need is Mutt, which has the ability
to retrieve mail from a remote server.

Also, have a look at this page: http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/

-Radek