On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:07:40PM -0400, Andrew Overholt wrote: > How can I make it forward to my local machine if I'm on a dialup account?
Oh, I assumed wrong. You can setup a script on the solaris machine that safely flushes your mail spoolfile to a place in your homedirectory, probably best done using tools installed on the solaris machine already. Maybe also gzip it. Finally, the script "cat"'s the file to stdout and deletes it (or something more robust than that, so you have less risk of losing mail due to mistakes). solaris:~/bin/catmail: #!/bin/sh $safe_flush > $stash gzip -c $stash $safe_rm $stash At home, you dial in and run a script that runs a ssh command on the solaris machine at school, the script described above. The output of this ssh command is redirected by the script at home into a file and unzipped, which also gives a free cheap transport integrity check. linux:~/bin/getmail: #!/bin/sh ssh -q [EMAIL PROTECTED] '~/bin/catmail' > $localfile gunzip $localfile This should let you read the file as a folder with a mail client, or pipe it into procmail or formail. Cheers, Joost
