Subject: Re: E-mail
From: Neil Jolly (njolly@home.com)
Date: Sat Nov 06 1999 - 21:33:07 MST
JP Rosevear wrote:
> 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.
>
> Well some thoughts here. A .forward rule at each ISP will auto forward
> the email. The dialup connection is only from the perspective of the
> home user, the ISP is up all the time.
Unfortunately this is in a rural setting where a dialup connection is the
only choice.
>
>
> Another alternative might be fetchmail:
>
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/
>
> There should be rpms on the yellowdog cd for fetchmail as well.
Looks like fetchmail is the choice. I've got it on the cd. Thanks to everyone
that replied. I'm fairly clueless when it comes to e-mail other than reading
it.
>
>
> -JP
> --
> =======================================================================
> JP Rosevear jpr@arcavia.com
> Arcavia Software Ltd. http://www.arcavia.com
> (905) 853-7714
-- Neil Jolly
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