On Fri Mar 21 2003 at 13:40, John Mathey wrote: > if I configure fetchmail to go pull mail from my ISP, can I then use a mail > client inside my network on another computer to pull mail from my redhat > box instead of directly from my ISP? Yes, many people do it like that. Myself included. It is particularly useful for smaller organisations who own a domain but have all the email for their domain put into one mailbox at their ISP. You can get fetchmail on a linux box in their network to collect all this mail and then have it put into separate local mailboxes on a per-user basis. This is called multidrop. Then you can run imap or pop and the individual users can access their email from there. If you start fetchmail as a daemon at boot-time from an rc init script (eg, /etc/rc.d/rc.local) then it will look for /root/.fetchmailrc and perform the multidrop magic for you automatically. > Additionally, I've seen a utility called fetchmailconf in previous > versions, is that available for redhat 8 or was it dropped? It was probably dropped, not sure why (and I'm not using rh8.0 on any of my workstations). No big deal anyway... after a read of the man page, a ~/.fetchmailrc file is easy and logical to construct by hand... poll pop-server.somewhere.net protocol pop3 user imauser there with password bigsecret is user here no keep no rewrite (Note that this will need to be more sophisticated for multidrop functionality - it's all in the man page). > Thanks in advance > John Cheers Tony ---*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=-=*#*=- Tony Nugent <Tony*linuxworks.com.au> LinuxWorks Gold Coast Qld Australia -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
