On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: > Allow me to give an example to be more specific (sorry). > > If my machine has the fullname > > newname.bf.org > > can I still download mail from the account [EMAIL PROTECTED] to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > using smail? How? Thanks.
You mean you have a POP-3 account form your ISP and you want that mail to end up in your mailbox on your own Linux computer? Sure, you can do this, but not with smail alone, since smail doesn't know the POP-3 protocol. Install fetchmail. This will get the mail from your ISP (the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address) and tell smail to send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's an example .fetchmailrc : poll mail.ipa.net proto pop3 user alemas pass XXXXXX is alemas mail.ipa.net : your ISP's mailhost pop3 : the protocol name alemas : your user name at your ISP XXXXXXX : fill in your actual password for your ISP alemas : your local username .fetchmailrc must be readable for you only : 'chmod 600 .fetchmailrc'. Then, just issue the 'fetchmail' command with no options and it will get your mail. For more information, please read the manual pages that come with the package. Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
