From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 14:32:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tarial.albury.net.au (tarial.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE1B14CE4 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:32:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nicks@tarial.albury.net.au) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by tarial.albury.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA40739; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:31:36 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from nicks) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:31:36 +1100 From: Nick To: "Frank J. Zidar" Cc: "Freebsd-Questions@Freebsd. Org" Subject: Re: Getting POP mail Message-ID: <20000105093136.A36104@albury.net.au> Mail-Followup-To: "Frank J. Zidar" , "Freebsd-Questions@Freebsd. Org" References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from zidarf@zidar.com on Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 10:33:29AM -0500 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a client running a small FBSD server to handle their file/printer > sharing, intranet, etc. They also have 15 separate POP3 mailboxes being > hosted as well as their public web site by an external company. They are > not currently interested in hosting the web site/email themselves because of > the cost for a full-time connection (they currently share a 56kb modem). > > What is the best way to get their POP mail into their local mailboxes on the > BSD server? I am looking into using fetchmail, but I'm not sure if this is > the best way to go. > We have several clients in this situation - using fetchmail/popclient is the way to go. We kick off fetchmail in ppp.linkup for non permanent connections. Nick. -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message