At 21:15 2000-08-14 -0700, Larry Wright wrote:
> Get and install some flavour of Linux. It runs on PCs.
I've not yet crossed the threshold, but it comes ever-closer with each
Office virus and 'can't do that' I run across.
This *WILL* have to be your solution if you want to continue to run
procmail, unless you go to another ISP and get another shell account there.
If you're migrating away from a shell account at
Netcom/ICG/Mindspring/Earthlink/flavour-of-the-month-ISP-merger, seems like
running your own Linux box should be a welcome project.
As I understood it, Earthlink may be reconsidering their decision to close
their shell services.
> other mail server, although if you're not on a fulltime connection, you'll
> need some scripts that tickle the MX server that accepts your mail while
> you're offline to get it to queue the messages for transfer to your server.
I'll probably not be full-time, to minimize security risks. This sounds
useful. If you could point me to a reference for the 'tickle', I'd
appreciate it.
I don't use a dialup for my unix boxxen, so I have NO experience with
dealing with that configuration aspect of it, but I believe you want to
look for "dial-up" and "dial-down" in some websearches. They're common
names for the scripts which initiate PPP dialups.
As for tickling - fetchmail has an option to perform that. It's called
"ETRN" - which is an ESMTP command to tell the remote server to queue up
messages it is holding for you. This *IS NOT* a POP mailbox command -- it
is for registered (in DNS) mailhosts with active secondaries (the ISP
you're connecting to with fetchmail and issuing the ETRN command to for
instance). This isn't something you're going to just implement with any
old dialup - arrangements have to be made, and it is pretty much assuming
you have a SendMail or compatible SMTP agent installed on your box -- mail
is delivered TO your server, not actually downloaded by it (as would be
with Fetchmail retrieving messages from a remote server via POP or IMAP).
You can find fetchmail at lots of sites. Here's one:
<http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Internet/Mail/>
In case you're still mistaken, Fetchmail is *nix only. Not
Windows. Wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a port either.
This is exactly what I wanted to do on the Win box :-). I was even willing
to manually run Win-procmail on some file, instead of having it
auto-process in the usual fashion.
Fetch to a Linux box, then have your windows box interract with the linux
box (including for outbound messages). Other things outside the scope of
this list that you can accomplish with your own Linux box include
firewalling, NAT (multiple computers through one real IP), personal
webserver, cacheing DNS (faster web surfing), web proxy (can be useful for
those with dirt slow network connections, though I don't personally use it).
Multiple physical mailboxes, and a near-unlimited disk quota (well, limited
only by how much disk you install).
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