Another way is to use Movemail within Netscape instead of POP or IMAP.
Andreas
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:01:21PM -0500, David Rankin wrote:
> Craig Sprout wrote:
>
> > At 10:50 AM 4/3/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> > >How do I set up Netscape to check the system mail? I have Mandrake 7.2
> > >and Netscape 4.75. I currently have to login to the server and check the
> > >system mail with Kmail. I would like to be able to check the system mail
> > >from Netscape running on a WinXX box to make this task quicker.
> > >
> > >My FQDN is: Nemesis.rbpllc.com
> > >Mail File is : /var/mail/root (or david or whoever)
> > >
> > >I can't figure out what entries (account info) to use in Netscape to get
> > >access to the mail on the Linux box. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > David--
> >
> > You need to make sure that you have a POP3 or IMAP server running on your
> > Linux box. Then you can set up Netscape to retrieve mail from any account
> > that you like.
> >
> > Incidentally, you should alias root to a regular user account, so that you
> > aren't transmitting the root password to check root's mail.
> >
>
> Craig, I have postfix running, I will look into its configuration. Thanks..
>
>
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> David C. Rankin
> Nacogdoches, Texas
>
>
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