> I am a newbie to Linux and so please pardon me if my questions are
> ridiculously stupid/ignorant.
We were all new once. :)
>
> I am trying to set up the linux box to be my personal web/mail server. I
> only have a 33.6k connection to my ISP and therefore cannot keep it up all
> the time. My question is this : how can i set up my machine so that it
> will download mail onto one place on my machine so that i am able to read
> it offline, compose message offline and then send it out at regular
> intervals.
You'll want to read up on a service called uucp. Wish I could tell you
more on that, but I've never used it myself. Try some web searches.
I would also like to be able to set up my machine so that i can
> host my own web pages and scripts so that i can learn perl and html better.
You can install Apache web server in Linux. It may have come with your
distribution CD, or you can go to www.apache.org to download it.
> btw Does anyone know how to set arena or lynx so that it routes through a
> proxy.
Sorry...not a clue here.
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Bill Kocik
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Medar, Inc.
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