From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 5: 6:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h0040f6849012.ne.mediaone.net (h0040f6849012.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.179.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3159337B6B2 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 05:05:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from eric@localhost) by h0040f6849012.ne.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0PD5gS09436; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:05:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from eric) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:05:42 -0500 From: Eric Johnson To: Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General Unix mail info Message-ID: <20010125080542.E9262@h0040f6849012.ne.mediaone.net> Reply-To: eric@coding-zone.com References: <20010125041549.F0E9037B400@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010125041549.F0E9037B400@hub.freebsd.org>; from 01031149@3web.net on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:35:34PM -0700 X-MUA-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-Uptime: 6:59AM up 3 days, 16:45, 2 users, load averages: 0.04, 0.04, 0.00 X-Disclaimer: #include Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:35:34PM -0700, Duke Normandin wrote: > Howdy.... Hi [snip] > On a Unix system, fetchmail is probably the beast responsible for > stuffing the "system mailbox" with POP3 stuff. With a permanent > Internet connection, what program stuffs the "system mailbox"? I need > to then find a DOS port for one of those suckers OR a utility that > would convert .wrk/.txt files to a single "mailbox". I'm not quite sure I follow, but I think what you want is an MTA like sendmail, exim, or qmail to name a few. These mail daemons sit on your machine's port 25 and accept incoming mail destined for a user on the local machine. The MTA usually puts incoming mail in /var/mail/ or /var/spool/mail/. Your MUA (pine?) reads from this append-only "system mailbox". Hope that helps. -- Best Regards, Eric Johnson (eric@coding-zone.com && http://www.coding-zone.com) /home/eric [eric@coding-zone]$ /usr/games/fortune -s Why doesn't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone? -- Jimmy Durante To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message