Re: local e-mail message delivery from isp

1997-11-19 Thread tko
David Stern writes: > [snip] > My question is: What is a good method to go about checking for and > delivering messages? Is there some slick app (gui or otherwise) that > automates this procedure, or should I hack my chatscript to run > something (what are my options?) at connect time and schedul

Re: local e-mail message delivery from isp

1997-11-18 Thread Daniel Martin
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, David Stern wrote: > > > > > Not one to leave well enough alone, I now want to setup my home Debian > > Linux box so that messages are transferred to my local mailspool and I > > can run a mail program locally. I've chosen sendm

Re: local e-mail message delivery from isp

1997-11-18 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Steve Kostecke wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > [snip] > > My question is: What is a good method to go about checking for and > > delivering messages? Is there some slick app (gui or otherwise) that > > automates this

Re: local e-mail message delivery from isp

1997-11-18 Thread Joe Stewart
At 06:37 PM 11/17/97 -0800, David Stern wrote: >Hi, > This is a question that I had recently. The answer seemed to be to use fetchmail to receive mail from your ISP's POP server. Then use procmail loaclly to distribute. I changed the appear script in the Linux Journal article "Ghosting onto the

Re: local e-mail message delivery from isp

1997-11-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, David Stern wrote: > Hi, > > My isp provides a "Unix shell account", and because I pick my e-mail up > from different platforms (Mac, PC, NeXT, Unix terms) and locations, it's > been most practical for me to simpy telnet into my isp and run my > (curses-based) e-mail program