Re: reading mail locally

1997-08-28 Thread 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

Re: reading mail locally

1997-08-27 Thread 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 solutio

Re: reading mail locally

1997-08-27 Thread 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). > > Th