Subject: Re: E-mail
From: Jules Bean (jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 06 1999 - 17:10:54 MST
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Neil Jolly wrote:
> I'm trying to consolidate our e-mail so all our clients can use the same
> pop mail server. Currently we have several different Isps (not my
> idea!), and i'd like to set up 1 server to donload mail from our
> different Isps, sort the mail by the To: field for access from the local
> clients. All the Isps are on dial up links. Does anybody have asimilar
> setup or even a faint idea as to how I could accomplish this?
>
> My only ideas to date involve a script to telnet to each Isp and dl the
> mail, but I'm not sure how you hand it over to sendmail or preferably
> q-mail for processing. Thanks in advance.
fetchmail.
Does all this and more.
Find it on (for example) freshmeat.net, or your local friendly
distribution will undoubtedly have it packaged.
Jules
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