Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 16:17:24 +0000 From: Michael Doyle <relyod@indigo.ie> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: POP/Sendmail configuration Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980213161724.00956e50@pop.indigo.ie> In-Reply-To: <19980213150142.36302@shale.csir.co.za> References: <3.0.5.32.19980213125307.0096b4b0@pop.indigo.ie> <3.0.5.32.19980213125307.0096b4b0@pop.indigo.ie>
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At 15:01 13/02/1998 +0200, you wrote: >Hi... > >On Fri, Feb 13, 1998 at 12:53:07PM +0000, Michael Doyle wrote: >> At 10:29 13/02/1998 +0000, you wrote: >> >I don't see this in the FAQ, but >> >I'm sure someone has come up against it before... >> >My ISP has put all the mail for my domain into a POP account on >> >their server. How can I get my FreeBSD box to collect it, and then >> >re-distribute it to the correct users ? >> >> Me, replying to my own message. >> Here's a wild guess, someone please tell me if it's >> a good effort, or a stupid guess :-) >> >> popclient -u <user> -p <pwd> -c mailhost | sendmail > >The usual reply to this FAQ is "fetchmail" or "/usr/ports/mail/fetchmail"... >I dont use it myself, since I've got full IP connectivity. > > -Jeremy > Thanks a million. Fetchmail has done what I need. BTW: to those on the documentation project: If this is a "FAQ" (and I'm sure it is), why isn't it in either the FAQ or the handbook under "mail" ? Once again, thanks to the other people who responded. (Yes, I know the ideal solution is if the ISP would let me just use the ETRN option, but they don't want to do that, and fetchmail works :-) <><=====================================================><> Michael Doyle phone: +353-1-661-0588 Network Administrator http://indigo.ie/~coopnth/ Co-Operation North E-mail: relyod@co-operation-north.ie (0ffice) relyod@indigo.ie (Personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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