On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:35:50PM -0500, Jay Latham wrote: > I have three computers in my home. I use one as a router to masq > the other two to the internet. I would also like to use this one > as the mail hub. There is only one user for the three boxes. > What I would like to do is to be able to read my mail from any > box but still save it on the hub. So that if I want to refer to > a saved msg from a different box I can get to it. > > The router is running debian 2.2r3 using > fetchmail-sendmail-procmail-mutt to deal with mail. The way it > is currently set up I have to read and send all mail from this > box. The other 2 boxes are using progeny-debian. I went this > route primarily because of the ease of X configuration with > progeny. They also have the same mail pkgs installed. So, my > question is, how can I set the network up to be able to > send/read mail from any box but store all mail on the hub?
Well, one way would be to NFS export /var/spool/mail to the other two boxes, which is what I'd probably do (and maybe also use NFS for your home directory for saved mail). I have no idea how hard this is to do, though. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/