On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Timothy Wilson wrote: > I've considered that, but I guess I haven't studied up on fetchmail > enough to know if it would work for me. My visi.com address is my primary > email address and I read it frequently at work and at home. Reading it > using pine or mutt in an ssh session makes it really easy to read my > email from anywhere. > > As I said, I don't know much about fetchmail. Can it operate in a > similar way? > fetchmail basically downloads mail off of a pop or imap server into your local spooler. > Maybe I could use IMAP instead, but I haven't checked to see if I can > get SSL-encrypted IMAP connections to visi. > Personally I fetmail all my mail for my various accounts into my main mail server. I then use mutt to read my mail. I also have IMP installed so I can get my mail from a web browser as well. It's invaluable to me to be able to get my mail from anywhere on the internet. As for your color problem, what type of system is your visi account on? Sun? Linux?