Sounds like a job for fetchmail. Will Lowe wrote: > > Ok, again, now that I'm back at school, I'd like to have all my > email/news reading be local, on my debian box, rather than on the > central servers. I can forward mail via .forward or .maildelivery (on two > different systems). > > The problem is this: my machine is (unfortunately) still running Win95 on > (rare) occaisions, and is also prone to the power outages caused by the > microwaves of the other residents. In essence, I need a way for my > machine to receive mail when booted to debian, but not have that mail > get lost if the system is down (which, over breaks, etc., can mean a > week or more of downtime). I've thought of two solutions, but maybe > someone else has another way. > > Solutions: > > 1) Forward mail to my machine (rivendell) by forwarding it all to one of > my remote accounts, and setting up a system that, when rivendell boots, > logs onto the remote account and replaces the .maildelivery with one that > forwards mail to rivendell, reinstating the original .maildelivery when > rivendell goes to shutdown. > > 2) Set up a cron-driven sort of thing that (every five minutes, or > whatever) rcp's my /var/spool/mail/~user file from each of several hosts, > appending them all to /var/spool/mail/harpo on rivendell. > > Any suggestions, comments, or other thoughts? Is there a package to do > this automagically? > > Will > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ > For PGP Public Key, visit my website. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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