Re: reading mail locally

[Debian mail-lists receiver]

Hi.  I don't know that much about delivery, but you might want to check out
if your remote server supports a post-office-protocol (like POP3?).  I use
this to download my mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from my remote mail server
(mail.strhg1.mi.home.com), specifically I use the fetchmail package to
do this.  The remote server collects the mail there, then, whenever my
machine is up, I run fetchmail and the mail is transferred directly to
my local machine (I also have a cron job that runs fetchmail every 4
hours).  Sounds like its just what you're looking for.

HTH

-- Harmon


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Re: reading mail locally

[Bob Clark]

Sounds like a job for fetchmail.

Will Lowe wrote:
 
 Ok,  again,  now that I'm back at school,  I'd like to have all my
 email/news reading be local,  on my debian box,  rather than on the
 central servers.  I can forward mail via .forward or .maildelivery (on two
 different systems).
 
 The problem is this:  my machine is (unfortunately) still running Win95 on
 (rare) occaisions,  and is also prone to the power outages caused by the
 microwaves of the other residents.  In essence,  I need a way for my
 machine to receive mail when booted to debian,  but not have that mail
 get lost if the system is down (which,  over breaks,  etc.,  can mean a
 week or more of downtime).  I've thought of two solutions,  but maybe
 someone else has another way.
 
 Solutions:
 
 1)  Forward mail to my machine (rivendell) by forwarding it all to one of
 my remote accounts,  and setting up a system that,  when rivendell boots,
 logs onto the remote account and replaces the .maildelivery with one that
 forwards mail to rivendell,  reinstating the original .maildelivery when
 rivendell goes to shutdown.
 
 2) Set up a cron-driven sort of thing that (every five minutes,  or
 whatever) rcp's my /var/spool/mail/~user file from each of several hosts,
 appending them all to /var/spool/mail/harpo on rivendell.
 
 Any suggestions,  comments,  or other thoughts?  Is there a package to do
 this automagically?
 
 Will
 
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Re: reading mail locally

[Chiel_Postma]

On Tue, Aug 26, 1997 at 11:42:41PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:

 In essence,  I need a way for my
 machine to receive mail when booted to debian,  but not have that mail
 get lost if the system is down (which,  over breaks,  etc.,  can mean a
 week or more of downtime).  I've thought of two solutions,  but maybe
 someone else has another way.


If the mail servers allow you to collect your mail with POP or IMAP you
should consider using fetchmail. It will fetch your mail from the various
servers and feed it to your home machine as if it had arrived via STMP.

Chiel


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