At 07:35 PM 09/29/2001 -0600, Admin wrote: >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...
Fetchmail by itself will not, fetchmail + pop3 or imap will. Fetchmail is a client that connects to an e-mail server -- to the best of my knowledge, it will not forward such messages to your outlook express client. The basic setup would be to create a user for e-mail. In that users crontab, you'd add a line to call fetchmail to check for new e-mail every x minutes (where x is how often you want it to check for e-mail on the remote e-mail system). The next step would be to enable the pop3 or imap server for your linux server, such that outlook express can connect, and download new messages on a regular basis. Make sure that you turn off HTML e-mail in Outlook Express (I seem to remember that it is enabled by default) and that it is not set to delete e-mail from the server. Depending on how much security you want in place for this, you can also enable ipchains (or iptables depending on kernel / distribution versions), adding a rule to only allow pop3 (or imap, depending on which one you choose) access from the IP of the Win98 box. This will prevent anyone outside your LAN from connecting (or attempting to connect) to the pop3 / imap server on your linux box. I'm sorry that I'm being so general on this post, but without knowing the specifics (ie, kernel version, distribution version, and so forth), I can't give you much detail. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida
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