Email question

[Concrete Geist]

I don't really know how to describe this, but here goes.

I have an email account in Windows, it's for my Rogers@Home Cable service (peyrard8481@home.com), and I just want to know how to get it to work on the Linux side. I use Mandrake 8 if that helps at all.
This is the last thing I need to make my conversion to Linux complete and it's giving me a headache.

[bdl]

You might try Mutt, Kmail, Spruce, Pronto or any one of a dozen or so highly available email apps that support POP3, or have fetchmail grab your email from the ISP's server at regular intervals and hand it off to your own system's mail server. From there you can read your ISP based email as if it was delivered right to your own machine. Cool huh?

[Concrete Geist]

Ok, but how?? I want to use KMail (feels most professional), I just don't know how to do that. I'm not an expert on email POP servers and that kind of stuff (I don't even know what to call it).

[bdg1983]

Just go into KMail and enter in all the pertinent settings. It's quite easy.

Your incoming and outgoing mail servers will be

mail.<your_area>.on.wave.home.com

Enter those for both.

Under Kmail configure and then Network

Select SMTP and enter the above with port 25

Under Incoming Mail, do the same for your accounts under PoP Accounts - port 110

Works fine for me and I just started to setup KMail yesterday.

[Concrete Geist]

I need more details on what <your_area> would be...

[bdg1983]

Did Roger's give you the spec sheets that has your domain name?

If you have your /etc/resolv.conf setup, then just add 'mail' to the domain.

If not, then try this at the commandline.

nslookup

Again 'if' it shows your dns info, and the > prompt, then type

mail

and it should give you the complete mail servers.

exit to quit out of nslookup.

[Concrete Geist]

It works now. Thanks again. :)

[bdg1983]

Your welcome. Glad I could help.