I use fetchmail, CRON, and IMAPD to do the same thing you're talking about.
For specifics just ask.
-Paul
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-----Original Message-----
From: scottk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Red Hat Hurricane List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, May 29, 1998 11:06 AM
Subject: ok....I just dont get it.
>Hello,
>
>I've been using linux for a little over a year now and appear to have
>installation down to an art. Thats actually good for me cause I learn
>better that way. But.......Ive read everything I can get my eyes on
>about mail. Ive read the mail queue how to the mail how to the mini this
>and that blah blah blah.
>
>I even called my isp who usually offer some great help, but they are in
>the middle of some upgrades and cant spend much time with me on this
>one.
>
>What I want to do is get my mail from my ISP along with my wifes mail
>from the same ISP and put it on my machines mail server and use netscape
>to pop it off my mail server.
>
>Yes I know this is the hard way but Im trying to learn about mail
>servers/clients etc. The goal is to have sendmail or fetchmail or
>whatever poll the ISP drag the mail to my machine say every 2 hrs via
>diald and a cron job or something.
>
>I think I need to go along the lines of uucp (i think thats what its
>called) but I keep running into this MX record thing. I have a dialup
>account with no registered domainname. I do have a static ip which
>translates into scottk.dialup.cdc.net
>
>After all this reading my brain is basically mush now.....anyone wanna
>take up this challenge off the list and help me get it setup? I'll write
>a how to for this situation as I havnt read one yet that fits my needs.
>
>Thanks
>Scott
>
>
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