Sam Watkins wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 06:25:01AM -0500, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: >> What steps are required to make my email work like WWWOFFLE and >> NOFFLE? I have Exim running and I heard about Fetchmail, but >> I need to know the basic concepts. Any help or pointers to >> faqs on how to do this are greatly appreciated! > > How do you get your mail - POP3 or IMAP from another server? > > If POP3, use fetchmail and fetchmailconf > If IMAP, use offlineimap (this is what I am using) > > Those are Debian package names, type e.g. "apt-cache show fetchmailconf" > for more info. > > Let's know if you have trouble configuring them. > > procmail is another thing you might want to use, but get the others going > first. > > OK, so first I set up fetchmail, and familiarize myself to that before I worry about sending email to the internet when I am not connected. They really are seperate applications (sending email vs receiving email) aren't they, regardless of what my email program presents to me.
I am excited about fetchmail, after reading the essay "the cathedral and the bazaar." I have several email accounts, all of which use POP3. My published email address at my ISP is farmed out to Postini, which has a great spam blocker. I also have a few email addy's on my webserver, which are also POP3. BTW, I have one of those webhosts with a "Cpanel" interface. I have a way of setting up email so that replies to an email I send are copied to both a POP3 and my Pager. If you want to know how this is done email me and I will tell you (I figure that is off-topic.) I bring it up because it is one of the things that allows me only to connect to the internet once a day. Thanks for the reply! --- Scotty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
