On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, George Bonser wrote: > Wait ... Fetchmail is for pulling mail FROM individual pop3 email boxes > from a remote host to the local host. If he is using that, he is having > to keep track of 1000 different user passwords at the remote ISP.
I'm not sure what he's using at the moment, but I don't think it's Debian. Fetchmail has a ETRN option, which tells the remote host to send all outstanding mail addressed to the local host. I'm not sure if he's using this or a uucp type one (probably uucp actually). > Do yourself a favor and install poppassd on your system and let your users > set their own password if they use Eudora. It save you a lot of admin > time. I was thinking along those lines, although they've already installed Pegasus (works with the Novell server they have. > Better find out more about exactly what he is doing before trying to tell > him how to do it :) Yeah! I just wanted an idea of what was involved. I've got my own home system working, but that only has three users! > 400 Meg / 1000 people is what ... 400K for each person. Hmm. Didn't really think of this :-) Might be able to use space on the Novell server if needed. Thanks heaps, Tim. --- Debian/GNU Linux... the maintainable operating system. http://www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
