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 remotely via dialup networking from home. > > 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 sendmail to handle the > daemon, exmh as a mail program, and I've run through the initial > configuration for each. > > 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 schedule cron to > connect every so often (or possibly just check every so often when I'm > connected, I haven't decided how often I want to check yet), or is there > an even better way to handle this ritual? My isp provides pop3, imap2, > imap4, if that helps. > > I've read many related docs including howto's, books, works from the > Debian Documentation Project, but have not made much progress. If there > is a good document I should read, please tell.
For fetching e-mail, take a look at fetchmail. It can use (amongst others) the pop3 and imap4 protocols to fetch e-mail from the isp and deliver the mail to a local user. It can run as a daemon (or not) and is very configurable. For sending e-mail you'll have to tell your e-mail program to use the localhost as the smtp server (which is probably the default) and configure sendmail for the dialup line. Since I am on a permanent connection (and don't use sendmail) I have no idea how to do this, but others certainly do. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
