On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Chester Larson wrote:

> Sorry, I am such an ass. What I am trying to do is get my email from my
> ISP. 

just your email? i presume that you want to dial-up first  (why else would 
you mention pppd?)

for an easy way to configure pppd you can use kppp, the pppd configuration 
tool that comes with kde (you do not have to be running kde to use it 
though)

as for the email, use fetchmail and you can configure that using 
fetchmailconf,

 -munir