On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:08:38 -0500 (EST),
theo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Just an idea I wonder about the feasibility of:
>
> I am fairly happy with my mailing clients which give me about 3
> ways to send and receive mail, one of which is via a shell account.
>
> I am not happy with having a separate file of sent messages on my
> ISP server. Therefore I am thinking of setting up a mail server
> on my home PC, and using the temporary, dynamic IP address of my
> PC during an internet session as an address to send FCC copies
> of email to.
You'd have to run the mailserver at the same time as your telnet
client. Off hand, the only thing I can think of is KA9Q. I haven't
tried it with smtp, but I have started ftp and telnet servers,
telneted to a shell account, then telnet and ftp to my dynamic IP
address. You can multitask inside of the "Network Operating System",
but I don't think you can run KA9Q and, say, NCSA Telnet at the same
time, at least in real mode.
> I figure I can dig up a mail server for Linux fairly easily. I
> suspect it will be hard to find one that works under DOS.
Of course, Linux itself is a multitasking OS, and all standard
installations include a smtp daemon (sendmail, smail, exim, etc.).
> How feasible is my plan?
I suppose you could experiment, but I think you should be able to
find an easier way to do it. Why not CC or BCC a copy to yourself
on your shell account and download the copies to your PC with your
POP mail. Or transfer your FCC folder with ftp (NCSA/CUTCP telnet
are also ftp servers). If your ISP runs an IMAP server, you might
be able to access your FCC folder with PC-Pine.
Anyway, those are just some quick suggestions.
Regards,
Howard E.
P.S. Since this is the Arachne mailing list, I'll mention something
about Arachne e-mail. I have found that it is handy for browsing
embedded links (not html) in an e-mail and news message, even if I
don't used Arachne to retrieve the message. I just copy the message
to an Arachne mail folder and rename it something.mes. Then I read
the message and follow the links when I am online with Arachne.
Works great.
Howard E.
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