Greetings, I just had to resubscribe to all the debian mailing lists, due to too many bounces. Not a happy camper.
This was (in part) due to the fact that mail tends to arrive at my ISP when I am not at my box and able to retrieve mail; I also have a 5M limit on mail held at my ISP. Although I delete messages from the server when downloading them, the early morning hours tend to fill up my box. As I result, I need some ~concrete~ and ~specific~ guidance wrt a more timely and automated method of retrieving and delivering mail. I have several users on this box (2 room mates), each of us uses a different method to read mail (KMail, Mozilla, Netscape), therefore any system would have to be transparent to the other users. I have RFM'ed and find that although all the components, ie, fetchmail, sendmail, exim, etc. are well documented, they do not instruct the average user (that ~must~ be the admin) how to combine all these tools. I have also burned my eyes raw attempting to understand Petersen's "Linux: Complete Reference (3rd ed)" to no avail. My initial thoughts are that I should be able to configure fetchmail to retrieve ~my~ mail (at first) and then use any mailer to read and send mail. I'd also like to be able to use the ~internal~ mailing system to receive logs and to send messages within my "home network". Any useful instructions / pointers would be appreciated. I ~must~ be able to set up my system as a mini-network. Future plans include the purchase of othere boxes; it would be nice to be able to deal with email on a truly multi-user system, while more than one person is on the system. Sorry for the long post. TIA C Masters
