Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 09:55:29 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail users Message-ID: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9904140940100.8189-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <19990413171504.B25045@rknebel.uplink.net>
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On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > I do not know exactly how to ask this so I will try to explain what I want > to do. > > I have a small home network set up with my freebsd box as a server. > I have my kids mac and my wife's win 98 box wired to it and they acces the > internet through it. > > I have a static email address and would like to give them all a mailbox on > my machine where there email would come to. > > Would I have to create an account for all of them and have them all loged in > at the same time?? You will need to create an account for all of them on your FreeBSD box, but they don't need to be logged in at the same time. You will need to install a POP3 daemon (popper, ipop3d) or a IMAP daemon (imapd) on your server. > Just point me in the right direction. There are a couple of options that I know of that you may choose. All require some setup changes (usually incurring charges) by your ISP. There is the fetchmail(1) option, where email to people in your network all drop into your email-box. fetchmail will pick up all the email there and resubmit it to your MTA (sendmail) on your server - which should split it up to individual mail-users. There is the sendmail hold-and-store option, (very nice if you have your own domain name), where email to your domain will go direct to your MTA when you're connected to the 'Net. When you aren't connected, the email will be held on your ISP's MTA's mail-queue; and will resubmit it to your machine when a ETRN request is sent to it (this is usually done with a script invoked within /etc/ppp.linkup for people using PPP). Hope this helps. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Chen | -insert-witty-quip-here- ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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