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 Net" to periodically during business hours dial up and check mail. I also use diald so the connection process is transparent. I asked about local mail delivery because fetchmail doesn't recognize the addressing that some mailing lists use. The previous mail server I used was "Communigate" on the Mac. Distribution rules were clear and easy. Joe Stewart > >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. > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
