From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 28 15:09:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA28980 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:09:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA28968 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:09:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA15231; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:08:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:08:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jesse T Kipp cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD@Home---> POP3 Mail over dynamic PPP Dialup... In-Reply-To: <19971028164253.24136649.in@mail.imailbox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 28 Oct 1997 Zaphod.Beeblebrox@imailbox.com wrote: > I am trying to configure my computer to send and reviece mail from a > pop3 mailbox, to my computer running FreeBSD 2.2.2: Any suggestions > for software, faq's, procedures, and/or tutorials that would help me > do this (and leave me understanding what I did)? See fetchmail in the ports tree. That will grab your pop mail and put iton the local box. Write your mail as normal. When you connect next time, sendmail will send the mail for you. There are some tricks to make sure that sendmail doesn't hang on DNS lookups when you're off-net. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major