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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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LinuxCare,
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../../gx/dennis/qbubble.gif"
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>Netscape 4.7 as a POP Client</H3>
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<p><strong>From Carlos Germán Siufi on Fri, 07 Jan 2000
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Netscape 4.7 as a POP Client
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I can't connect to my pop3 account using Netscape Messenger v4.7. My
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problem is my user ID. It's the e-mail address. Example:
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<br>"<tt>username@domain.com</tt>"
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<br>I think Netscape only sends "<tt>username</tt>" not
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"<tt>username@domain.com</tt>". Now
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I'm using the command <tt>fetchmail</tt> with the <tt>-u</tt> parameter.
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Example:
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<br>"<tt>fetchmail mail.domain.com -u username@domain.com</tt>".
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<br>It works. How can I fix Netscape Messenger?
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<P><STRONG>
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Germán Siufi
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<br>[From Argentina]
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<BLOCKQUOTE><IMG SRC="../../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" ALT="(!)"
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German,
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My personal inclination would be to use <tt>fetchmail</tt> to fetch
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your mail into your local spool (or inbox) and just use Netscape
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Communicator on that. I'd also configure NS to feed
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outgoing mail to my MTA (my local copy of <tt>sendmail</tt>) and
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let that do my masquerading, or use its support for
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"from" rewriting (through the <tt>genericstable</tt> FEATURE) and
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other mail handling.
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If you really insist on using NS' built-in POP and SMTP
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support and letting it do this stuff directly then I'd
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just play with the entry in the "Edit, Preferences,
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Identity" dialog, trying to put in your full username@
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domain name address.
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 2000, James T. Dennis
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<BR>Published in <I>The Linux Gazette</I> Issue 50 February 2000</H5>
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<H6 ALIGN="center">HTML transformation by
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