You should be thinking along the lines of pop proxy server in your
machine. I do not know of any specific Linux based products at the moment,
but I know such programs are available for 95 or NT. I will search and
contact you later
ifiok
On Fri, 29 May 1998, scottk wrote:
> 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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