From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 6 23:15:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA23951 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 23:15:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA23943 for ; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 23:15:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.02 #26) id 0zFpFV-0001ck-00; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 01:33:41 +0100 Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 01:33:40 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Mark Barbisan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Email for Dialup Account Message-ID: <19980907013340.A5816@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.3i (FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Barbisan wrote: > This computer is a personal computer, which is *not* connected to a LAN. > From the reading I have done on the FreeBSD site, I am pretty sure I have > to use sendmail and fetchmail (my internet connection is a dynamic PPP > dialup). Well you could use those, but there are others. Fetchmail is fine, but I find Exim easier to configure than Sendmail if you're new to it, so I'd recommend you at least try that. www.exim.org (Exim was about the first program I installed under FreeBSD, I didn't even look at Sendmail. From what I'd heard about configuring it, I didn't want to.) > Are there any tutorials available on the web concerning how to > setup sendmail and fetchmail (if these are indeed the programs I need to > use) for dialup, dynamic PPP connections? Fetchmail is fairly simple. just create a .fetchmailrc along the lines of poll pop3.mail.isp.net protocol POP3 user foo is bar here, password foobar where foo is the name you use to log into your ISP's pop server to collect mail, bar is your local login name, and foobar is your password for your ISP's pop3 server. I know bugger all about Sendmail though. -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message