On 07 Aug 2000 22:09 "Merell L. Matlock, Jr." wrote:
>1. What should my hostname be set to?
Anything you like.
>2. There are some email issues.
>
> 1. Most of my family uses (uck) Netscape mail. Their local
> usernames are *not* the same as the usernames on the bellsouth
> pop server. How to reconcile without having to make new
> usernames for everyone?
Use fetchmail to download mail. Each user will need a ~/.fetchmailrc file
that can look like this:
defaults fetchall nokeep protocol POP3 mda "procmail -d LinuxUsername"
poll pop.ispname.com username IspUsername password IspPassword
Then you can run a local POP3 daemon to allow users to POP their mail from
Netscape and filter it using Netscape's filters.
To download the mail, I created a GNOME menu item with "fetchmail" as the
command. Have it run in a terminal. Or you can create /etc/ppp/ip-up.local and
include the following to download mail from the ISP automatically each time
you connect:
# Download all user mail.
for mailuser in `ls /home`; do
if [ -f /home/$mailuser/.fetchmailrc ]; then
logger -i -t $scriptname "Fetching mail for $mailuser"
su -l $mailuser -c fetchmail
fi
done
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