On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Stan Brown wrote: > I have anacount on Netcom that I hav historically used as my primary > mail receipt/reading/sending place. The response over the net has > become pretty bad for interactive use, and the Netcom version of elm > doesn't understand MIME. > > What I would like to do is contimue to use my Netcom address, download > my mail for local reading, and uplad outgoing mail such that it still > show Netcom as the point of origin. [...]
I am using just such a setup. A few notes: 1) Since netcom doesn't provide slip/ppp to shell account holders, you will have to fake it using slirp (which is what I use), tia, or possibly term. If you haven't already set this up, let me know off the list since this isn't really Debian specific. 2) I use fetchmail to retrieve my messages, It injects them into port 25 of my linux box for smail to feed to my spool via procmail. Here's my .fechmailrc (edited): poll 10.0.2.2 protocol POP3 user dthayer password noneofyourbusiness 3) I use smail as my mail handling agent. I answered the questions in smailconf yielding the following /etc/smail/routers file (indented and minus the standard comments) smart_host: driver=smarthost, transport=smtp; path=mail.netcom.com 3) I have pine set up to (un)fake my address back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] This can also be configured into smail somehow if elm doesn't support this, check the archives. This setup works great, I can read and compose my mail off line, smail spools it until next time I log in. The only thing left for me is to setup a procmail recipe on my netcom account to reject obvious spam so that it never gets downloaded your pal dave Dave Thayer Denver, Colorado USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .