Re: POP mail questions
On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Stan Brown wrote:
> I have anacount on Netcom that I hav historically used as my primary
> mail receipt/reading/sending place. The response over the net has
> become pretty bad for interactive use, and the Netcom version of elm
> doesn't understand MIME.
>
> What I would like to do is contimue to use my Netcom address, download
> my mail for local reading, and uplad outgoing mail such that it still
> show Netcom as the point of origin.
[...]
I am using just such a setup. A few notes:
1) Since netcom doesn't provide slip/ppp to shell account holders, you
will have to fake it using slirp (which is what I use), tia, or possibly
term. If you haven't already set this up, let me know off the list since
this isn't really Debian specific.
2) I use fetchmail to retrieve my messages, It injects them into port 25
of my linux box for smail to feed to my spool via procmail. Here's my
.fechmailrc (edited):
poll 10.0.2.2 protocol POP3 user dthayer password noneofyourbusiness
3) I use smail as my mail handling agent. I answered the questions in
smailconf yielding the following /etc/smail/routers file (indented
and minus the standard comments)
smart_host:
driver=smarthost, transport=smtp;
path=mail.netcom.com
3) I have pine set up to (un)fake my address back to dthayer@netcom.com
rather than dave@gamera.bogus.domain. This can also be configured into
smail somehow if elm doesn't support this, check the archives.
This setup works great, I can read and compose my mail off line, smail
spools it until next time I log in. The only thing left for me is to
setup a procmail recipe on my netcom account to reject obvious spam so
that it never gets downloaded
your pal dave
Dave Thayer
Denver, Colorado USA
dthayer@netcom.com
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