On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 10:17:52AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Bill Hults wrote: > > > Hi > > I need to grab mail from a qmail server via etern. Can this be done? > > Thanks > > No. Yes and No. It depends on the program that wants to fetch the emails and whether you have a fix IP address or not and how much control you have on the qmail server. If the program doesn't depend on positive return codes to the ETRN command (otherwise you have to patch qmail-smtpd) and you have a fixed IP address and you have control of the qmail server have a look at the serialmail package written by djb and the AutoTURN section on http://cr.yp.to/serialmail.html \Maex -- SpaceNet AG | http://www.Space.Net/ | Stress is when you wake Research & Development | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | up screaming and you Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0 | realize you haven't D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 | fallen asleep yet.