Re: reading mail locally
Sounds like a job for fetchmail.
Will Lowe wrote:
>
> Ok, again, now that I'm back at school, I'd like to have all my
> email/news reading be local, on my debian box, rather than on the
> central servers. I can forward mail via .forward or .maildelivery (on two
> different systems).
>
> The problem is this: my machine is (unfortunately) still running Win95 on
> (rare) occaisions, and is also prone to the power outages caused by the
> microwaves of the other residents. In essence, I need a way for my
> machine to receive mail when booted to debian, but not have that mail
> get lost if the system is down (which, over breaks, etc., can mean a
> week or more of downtime). I've thought of two solutions, but maybe
> someone else has another way.
>
> Solutions:
>
> 1) Forward mail to my machine (rivendell) by forwarding it all to one of
> my remote accounts, and setting up a system that, when rivendell boots,
> logs onto the remote account and replaces the .maildelivery with one that
> forwards mail to rivendell, reinstating the original .maildelivery when
> rivendell goes to shutdown.
>
> 2) Set up a cron-driven sort of thing that (every five minutes, or
> whatever) rcp's my /var/spool/mail/~user file from each of several hosts,
> appending them all to /var/spool/mail/harpo on rivendell.
>
> Any suggestions, comments, or other thoughts? Is there a package to do
> this automagically?
>
> Will
>
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