This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > Stephen Gran wrote: > >If you're like me, you have a multi-user box (only 4 or 5, but > >still), and want mail to work for all users with all standard mail > >clients. > > > exactly. set that number to 2! > > >So, I set up exim to handle all the outgoing mail, fetchmail to pick > >up all the incoming mail, > > > will that mean that all users will have to disclose their passwords to > me?? If they want their mail picked up a fetchmail demon, yes. You can tell them to write their own .fetchmailrc, and cat /$HOME/.fetchmailrc >> /etc/fetchmailrc if it makes you feel better to not look at it. > >>2. can i ask fetchmail to download only headers and delete > >>unwanted headers off the server only? > > > >No - this would be a great addition, though - maybe file a wishlist > >bug? > > > HOW? `bug fetchmail` - set priority to wishlist. `bugview fetchmail` to make sure this is not already requested first. > >Any or all of the standard mail clients can read from the mailspool > >and your other mboxes. Some have trouble with Maildir or MH style > >boxes, but I think most can handle them fine. > > > well, mozilla cant handle it. it has options only for pop3 and imap! > how does it read fetchmailed messages? I don't personally use Mozilla mail, but I would be very suprised if it *couldn't* read from the mailspool - I will leave this to others to describe for you, since I don't know. Steve -- I can relate to that.
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