Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Mail Retrieval

With imapd set up on your server, you can access your mail using numerous methods. You can use a command-line program such as Pine on the Linux console, an IMAP-compliant Windows or Macintosh-based email client (a list of which can be found at http://www.imap.org/products.html), or Netscape Communicator, which is available as part of the Red Hat Linux distribution.

Configuring Netscape for POP3 or IMAP Retrieval

It's fairly simple to set up Netscape to talk to your mail server. You just need to tell it your IMAP or POP server name, your login name, and if you want to use IMAP, the subdirectory in your home directory on the server where your folders are kept.

Start off by logging in to your account and creating a directory called ...