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Re: local mail server for offline mail r,w - how?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Thu Nov 12 11:45:44 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:42:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
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cc: Hugo Rabson <hugo.rabson@zetnet.co.uk>
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On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Hugo Rabson wrote:
> If you please, how would I go about setting up my local mail-server
> (localhost) to download non-local new email from a POP3 server (my ISP) and
> then post non-local outgoing emails to the SMTP server (my ISP, again) at
> night, in one big batch?
>
> I think it's something like this:-
>
> 1) configure fetchmail to grab mail from mail.zetnet.co.uk (pop3 server)
http://www.moongroup.com/unix/quicktips.html#.fetchmailrc file?
http://www.moongroup.com/unix/mail_clients.html
> 2) forward Hugo's mail to user 'hugo' ... using procmail perhaps?
Fetchmail does this already... see the above links!
> 3) view the email account of user 'hugo' with a mail-reader such as XfMail
> 4) use sendmail to send the outgoing non-local emails in batch mode (?)
http://www.moongroup.com/unix/quicktips.html#envelope
>
> I am happy to RTFM, of course :) but I'm not sure which FMs to R.
http://www.moongroup.com/unix/mailhelp.html
> Any advice is appreciated. A simple "read this faq" would be valuable. ;)
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