On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 04:09, Bill Michell wrote:
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Behalf Of Rich Garcia
I have been able to set up fetchmail and DL my messages then use the
mail command to read it. I guess a cron job would be necessary to poll
my ISP every 2 or so minutes
Actually no - fetchmail will happily carry on running indefinitely, polling
at whatever interval you specify.
If you set daemon mode in .fetchmailrc or using the command line args.
but then I am at a loss as to how to set up
the clients to look at my mail server computer on the home network to
pick up the mail stored there.
You need to run a POP3 or IMAP server on your home computer, then tell the
home machines to connect to it instead of your ISP. You also need to be
running an SMTP server if you want to forward outgoing messages. But you
need to configure it carefully so that you don't become an "open relay" for
any spammer who can find your IP address.
Unless you have a real need to send the clients mail through a local
SMTP server, there's no need to. Just set the clients incoming mail
server to your local machine via POP3 or IMAP, and point their outgoing
mail server directly to your ISPs smtp server.