1. install ‘fetchmail’ to get mail from POP3 server.
2. under home dir, create .fetchmailrc and use following syntax (assuming no ssl)
poll [SERVER] with proto [PROTOCOL]
user [REMOTE_USER] there with password [REMOTE_PASSWORD] is [LOCAL_USER] here
3. Start getting mail using “fetchmail -v”
4. mutt tips:
# view html within mutt
auto_view text/html
# press I to auto fetch mail
macro index I ‘
In .mailcap,
# necesary for mutt to view html file within it
text/html; elinks %s; nametemplate=%s.html
text/html; elinks -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
Note: all should be working assuming that postfix is setup correctly.