Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 14:39:12 +0000 From: "Anil John" <ajohn@cyberforge.com> To: bkogawa@primenet.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Popclient--FreeBSD--FWTK Message-ID: <199609221837.OAA26999@onramp.i95.net>
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On 20 Sep 96 at 21:02, bkogawa@primenet.com wrote: > If you do want to pick up mail from three separate accounts using > your freebsd box, and then use Pegasus to pick up the mail from > the freebsd box, you'll need the following: > > Install and configure POP3 server as per directions. Install > POP3 client. > > In a scripting language of your choice, use popclient to connect > to your popmailboxes and get your email. Have popclient deliver > this email to your system mailbox, at /var/mail/<username>. > > Set your Windows client to use your freebsd username and password, > and to connect to your freebsd machine for POP mail. > > Configure FTWK to allow the connection on the POP3 port directly > to your FreeBSD machine, instead of using a proxy to the outside > world. > It works!!!. Thanks Brian.. > Run the script which does pickup every time you want to get your > mail (or every time you connect your PPP session). > 1. It's a security risk to leave your pop account passwords > sitting in the script on your freebsd machine. Probably not a > glaring one, but still a hole. You can configure the popclients to > take your password from stdin like passwd and su and the like (this > is what I do). I am not all that familiar scripts, so a couple of questions.. From what you descibed above, is it possible to set up a script that runs popclient each time pegasus goes to check the mail on my FreeBSD box..Or I could live with running popclient periodically on my freebsd box.. > > 2. You may have problems with popclient delivering to > /var/mail/<username>, although I don't think so. I don't think > popclient flocks the mailbox it uses, which means if something > else tries to deliver at the same time, your mail is probably > hosed. Deliver to temporary boxes, then use a program that > understands mailbox locks (procmail? formail? a perl script?) to do > the delivery from these boxes to avoid this potential catastrophe. Since one of the reasons I am running this setup is to check multiple mailboxes, this would be a concern for me...You kind of lost me above, Currently 'popclient' delivers mail to /usr/mail/ajohn. Is what you are suggesting that I use popclient to deliver mail to multiple folders, say one for each account that I use popclient with, then use some other program like procmail to get the mail from the multiple folders to 'var/mail/ajohn'? Anil ___________________________________________________________ CyberForge Group LLC * Internet Consulting E-Mail: ajohn@cyberforge.com * WWW Publishing 410-597-8139 * LAN & WAN Integration URL: http://www.cyberforge.com
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