I would imagine that fetchmail as a cron job would be the one for the job
of getting the mail from multiple POPs to local users and maybe diald to
connect the PPP when needed. Then have the network machines check for mail
on the local machine that is running the aforementioned progs.
At 07:06 PM 12/4/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The structure of my little home network is changing. Used to be one user
>(me :-) with several PCs. Life used to be simple. Whenever I brought up
>ppp I used NetScape mail client to connect to my external POP3 server to
>get and send e-mail.
>
>
>Now I have a few users logging in to different PCs in the local network.
>So, what I need is a way of retrieving e-mail from more than one POP3
>server and sending to one SMTP server in the name of different local
>users. Then the users shall be able to retrieve their e-mail locally
>whenever it suits them. (I'm still connecting ppp only momentarily. No
>free local calls here.)
>
>Could someone please indicate to me what would be the overall design of
>such a system? What applications would be involved and how would the
>e-mail flow?
>
>And yes, I still want to read my e-mail in the NetScape mail client.
>
>Best regards
>Gustav
>
>
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