Re: mail fetching/delivering on a workstation connected with dialup
*-"Oskar Liljeblad" <osk@hem.passagen.se>
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| I am trying to set up mail delivering/fetching on a (sporadicly) dial-up
| connected computer. I have figured out that I need fetchmail to send get
| mail from my email accounts. But how should I set up email delivering?
|
| I run a single-user debian workstation, but it is possible multiple users
| will use it in the future. Do I use fetchmail or the machine's smail to
| deliver mail? Should I need to change anything in the email reader (I'm
| using mutt right now)?
As you have found out, fetchmail is a good way to get mail from
your accounts. Fetchmail gets the mail and resends them on your machine
(to yourself).
For sending mail, you don't need any extra software. The key point is
the configuration of your MTA (smail). When you configure smail
you have to option to specify that you will use a smarthost.
This will make outbound mail queue up on your machine. When you connect
to the Internet you can then run the command 'runq' to send all
the mail that has been queued up to the smarthost (your provider) and it
will then send it on to where it's supposed to go.
I use exim instead of smail, and it's easy to configure. I suppose
that's the case with smail too, but you might consider changing if
you run into troubles. (Just an evil plot to convert the world :-)
Good Luck
--
.elOle.
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