>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Sheaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> My interest is using Linux as a mail gateway for a Brian> Win95/Win3.11 LAN. The setup would be like this. Brian> 1. The Linux PC would dial into local ISP. Get each users Brian> mail from the local ISP. e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian> [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. I presume the mail gateway software Brian> can read a userlist file ?? Brian> 2. Each PC user would then check the Linux mail server by Brian> using a Windows based mail package (e.g. Eudora) or telnet Brian> to the Linux PC and use Unix Mail command from a login Brian> shell. Brian> Is it possible. Certainly. Brian> What packages would you recommend for 1. mail gateway Brian> software (e.g. fetchmail,sendmail etc) 2. to make the dial Brian> up connection (ISP would allocate IP on login) For 2., the latest ppp package should be just what you need. It contains the ppp daemon (pppd) and some useful scripts for connecting and disconnecting (pon, poff, plog). For 1., I personally would not recommend fetchmail. On my system at least, it seems to have trouble communicating properly with the POP3 server at my ISP. I would recommend 'popclient', which used to be in the 'netstd' package. As of 1.2, however, I believe you have to look for it elsewhere. Also, if you want to use it, you can't have fetchmail installed, because the fetchmail package contains a 'popclient' which is actually a symbolic link to 'fetchmail'. As to whether popclient (and fetchmail, for that matter) can read a user list, automating them to retrieve mail for any number of users with a shell script run by 'cron' is trivial. Good luck, sounds like you're off to a good start. The next step is to convince your Winblows users that they'd be better off running Linux as well... -- Nathan L. Cutler Linux Enthusiast http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~nlc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]