On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 11:00:25PM -0700, Mary Christie Generalao wrote:
> I dont understand what fetchmail's purpose will be.
> With the current setup, they (remote) can now get/send
> mail from our office mail server via imap/pop3
> clients. Or I can also configure their linux dialup
> server as mail server and use our office mail server
> as relay host, all of which I can do (i think :). What
> use will I have for fetchmail? Our programmer
> "insists" fetchmail :) What do i miss in the setup?
> Enlighten me please :)
fetchmail is a POP client, among other things.
you can use it to fetch mail from a POP server and then dump it onto the
local server.
perhaps the programmer wants a local Unix mailbox, besides the remote one.
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