Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@earthlink.net> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 10:19:40AM -0400, Tim Sailer wrote: > > I can set you up with a temporary account on buoy.com until you get settled. > > Send me email there (address in sig). > > Thanks Tim, I've been trying to pull some crazed solution about ssh tunnels > and user level pop servers out of my head with helpful suggestions from > #debian, lots of ideas but none of them as efficient as just sending the > mail to a machine with a pop server. => Here's a 'SCP-POP' script I wrote a couple of weeks ago, if anyone care... :) ----- s n i p ----- #!/bin/sh USER="turbo" MAIL="/var/spool/mail/turbo" SERV="master.debian.org" case "$1" in -f) # Check who we got mail from, on the server... ssh -x $SERV "from" ;; -c) # Check if we have mail or not... DONE=`finger $USER@$SERV | grep -e 'New mail' -e 'Mail last'` if [ "$DONE" != "" ] then echo "You got mail..." else echo "No mail..." fi ;; *) # DONE=`finger $USER@$SERV | grep -e 'New mail' -e 'Mail last'` # if [ "$DONE" != "" ] # then echo -n "Packing mail..." ssh -x $SERV "rm ~/inbox*; /usr/bin/lockfile -ml $MAIL" ssh -x $SERV "cat $MAIL > ~/inbox; echo -n > $MAIL ''" ssh -x $SERV "/usr/bin/lockfile -mu $MAIL; gzip ~/inbox" 2>/dev/null echo "done." echo -n "Transfering mail..." scp $SERV:~/inbox.gz ~/inbox.gz echo "done." echo -n "Adding mail to mailbox..." zcat ~/inbox.gz >> ~/Mailbox rm ~/inbox.gz echo "done." # else # echo "No mail..." # fi ;; esac exit 0 ----- s n i p ----- -- -- Microsoft: Do less with more. UNIX on Intel: Do more with less. -- Turbo __ _ Debian GNU Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just ^^^^^ / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ selective about who its friends are / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / Live long and prosper _ /// / /__| | | | | |_| |> < Turbo Fredriksson turbo@tripnet.se \\\/ \____/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ Surrey/B.C./Canada (604)572-3523 Debian Certified Linux Developer PGP#788CD1A9 www5.tripnet.se/~turbo ------- PGP: B7 92 93 0E 06 94 D6 22 98 1F 0B 5B FE 33 A1 0B -------- -- Noriega Qaddafi Uzi Waco, Texas jihad ammunition counter-intelligence security quiche South Africa fissionable radar Honduras Nazi plutonium
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