on Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:21:51PM +0200, Mikko Hänninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Breton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 29 Feb 2000:
> > There are a few solutions I can think of and I'm wondering if anyone
> > could advise me on which one might be best, or hopefully suggest a
> > better one.
>
> First of all, I'd recommend the approach to getting fetchmail. In the
> daemon mode, it'll automatically fetch email in the background and you
> won't notice anything (except that the line is busy with some traffic...).
Im using a perl program called pop_perl5, which doesnt require
sendmail running on the local machine and has a daemon mode. I make an
ssh tunnel first:
ssh -f -L 1110:popserver:110 localhost 'sleep 7d </dev/null >/dev/null'
and then configure pop_perl5 to use localhost:1110 as the pop server.
This keeps my mail arriving all week to my localhard drive.
Then I use rsync to sync my mailboxes to a network share that is
backed up. Im very happy with the speed of mutt with local mail spool
and folders.
BB
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