[ale] NW & email issues

Collin Pruitt collin at collinp.com
Sat Jan 22 15:22:23 EST 2011


I'm not sure on how to fix your network applet and tray, but running
"ifup eth0" in a terminal will temporarily fix your network access.

As for getting your email, the utility fetchmail may be of help:
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/

On 01/22/2011 02:31 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a little Adam box running Xbuntu 10.10 but managed to turn off
> networking from an applet in the tray at top of desktop, now after
> reboot the tray & applet don't appear and I can't figure out how to
> turn it back on. 
>
> Recently got Comcast for internet service and am going to drop AT&T
> but would like to suck down all my emails from MaBell first.. How do I
> go about doing that? I mostly use gmail and haven't set up Evolution
> or any of that for a mail client.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> GC
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Collin Pruitt
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