POP mail

[OvErboRed]

I'm new to mutt. I'd like to use it for my pop mail, but the only way I
can do that is by hitting c followed by the long string pop://.... Why
can't I hit G and get the same effect? I think I set my .muttrc pop
settings correctly (see below), but hitting G downloads all the mail and
then gives me a blank screen (and when i hit j/k it says "There are no
messages"). Yet the mail definitely gets added into my spoolfile. What
am I missing? Should there be any difference between the two methods?
And where does all the mail get downloaded to when I use c? (If it
matters, I'm running the package distributed with cygwin on XP.) Thanks
in advance.

---.muttrc---

set realname = "OvErboRed"
set from = "publ...@SPAMoverbored.net"
set pop_host = localhost:8110 # because I'm using SpamBayes
set pop_user = "publ...@SPAMoverbored.net"
set pop_pass = asdf
set pop_delete = no # I need to leave my messages on the server

set spoolfile = "/home/overbored/Mail/inbox"

# not sure what these two values mean, just followed a tutorial
set mbox = "+received"
set record = "+sent"

set sendmail = "/usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe"

[Sven Guckes]

* OvErboRed <publ...@SPAMoverbored.net> [2004-08-22]:

> I'm new to mutt.

no mention of OS, no version info -> no service.

> set sendmail = "/usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe"

ssmtp.exe, huh?

"Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer!"

Sven

[OvErboRed]

Erwan David <er...@rail.eu.org> wrote in
news:85d61iq...@bretagne.rail.eu.org:

> Sven Guckes <use...@guckes.net> wrote :

>
>> no mention of OS, no version info -> no service.
>

> Possible on windows+cygwin. Sure indication of OS+platform is
> necessary.

Sorry, I did say this at the top: "I'm running the package distributed
with cygwin on XP." (If you look on cygwin.com/packages, you'll see the
package has not been updated in some time.) Here are more details:

Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19)
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.

System: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.9(0.112/4/2) (i686) [using ncurses 5.3]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK -DL_STANDALONE
+USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
+USE_POP +USE_IMAP -USE_GSS +USE_SSL -USE_SASL
+HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM
+HAVE_PGP +BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS +LOCALES_HACK -HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
+HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID -HAVE_GETADDRINFO
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
-MIXMASTER
To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt...@mutt.org>.
To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility.

[Sven Guckes]

* OvErboRed <publ...@SPAMoverbored.net> [2004-08-23]:
> Erwan David <er...@rail.eu.org>:

>> Sven Guckes <use...@guckes.net> wrote :
>>> no mention of OS, no version info -> no service.
>> Possible on windows+cygwin. Sure indication of OS+platform is
>> necessary.
>

> I did say this at the top: "I'm running the package distributed
> with cygwin on XP." (If you look on cygwin.com/packages,
> you'll see the package has not been updated in some time.

you might want to mention exact information to
save some time for the reader "guessing the rest".

> Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19)

> System: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.9(0.112/4/2) (i686) [using ncurses 5.3]

yep. this version is old. you cygwin users are *way* behind
and missing many months of the development of mut. so - suffer.
somebody ought to update the mutt binary. then again - all users
of windows should be forced to be using what M$ provides.

(man - this coffee was awful!)

anyway, fetchmail exists. if you want
"POP with features" then use fetchmail.

Sven