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getting emails from ISP using mailtool (sendmail)

I'm connected to the INTERNET through PPP, I was using netscape to
download all my emails. (I'm using solaris 2.5.1 on a SparcClassic)

Now I wanna use mailtool instead of netscape but I don´t know what to change in sendmail.cf

Everything is working (/etc/resolv.conf, /etc/nsswitch etc)

I just need to know how to tell sendmail.cf the name of my POP3 Server
and stuff like that. (same stuff when you're setting up the Mail in netscape)

Any idea...

Thanks in advance....
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I just have 100 points left, I hope you can help me.
I may, of course, be wrong, but I think you're trying to use sendmail for something that sendmail doesn't do.  Sendmail receives incoming mail, and passes outgoing mail along, but I don't think it's terribly good at going out and getting mail bound for the server it's running on.

The tool you may want to investigate is fetchmail.  I believe that may be the easiest way to accomplish what you're trying to do.
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