Fetchmail does exactly what it the name implies. Nothing more. It fetches mail, from a remote server, and puts it on the local machine. From there you can do anything you want with it.
What you can do is, set up the Linux box to download mail vial fetchmail, and put the mail in $MAIL for each user. From there, you can set up Outlook Express to download mail from your Linux box. I did this for a while, before I got my cable connection. I had one Windows machine, that was not on the Internet, and one Mandrake 7.2 machine that was on a DialUp connection. I'd download mail to the Linux box over the modem, and via the network, I'd send mail out from my Linux box, and get the email my Linux box would download. But fetchmail on a Linux box, will just put the mail in Outlook Express' mail folders, you'll still have to download the mail, even if it just from a server on your local network. tdh -- T. Holmes ----------------- UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------- "Real Men Use Vi!" Uptime: -------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:50PM up 5 days, 9:52, 3 users, load averages: 0.06, 0.02, 0.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Hello: | | I understand fetchmail is an email retrieval system, which will obtain emails | from a remote email server and distribute them to the local network. | Currently, I have a two pc lan, where my second pc is a win98 box. Does | anybody know if fetchmail will work with outlook express? Meaning, is it | possible to configure fetchmail so it will go to the proper email server, d/l | the emails and if necessary send the appropriate emails to my outlook express | client in my win98 box? Thanks... | | Dexter | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ------------------------------------------------------------------
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