On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Dave Seidel wrote:
> Linux). (Please don't bother flaming me on this. Frankly, OE sucks less
> than any the Linux mail clients I've tried, and I've pretty much tried them
> all, GUI or non-GUI.) I set each of us up with a separate OE profile, and I
> use inbox rules (i.e., filtering) to ensure that we each download only the
> messages that belong to us.
I'm certainly not going to flame you, but I am going to have to beg to
differ. Nothing is better than pine. It is the most flexible and feature
rich mailer I've come across on any platform.
> I'm getting tired of this, however, because it *does* ties everyone to OE.
> My wife prefers Outlook, and on my part I'm ready to make a switch to a
> native Linux mail client, as the suckage level seems to be lessening. I'm
> also tired of keeping VMWare up all the time -- even with 256MB RAM, it's a
> resource hog.
>
> So what I'd ike to do is switch to a scheme using (perhaps)
> fetchmail/procmail. My question (finally!) is: what's the best way for my
> to grab all the mail from my ISP and serve it up to my other three users?
> We're on a LAN; my machine is a NAT server and firewall. Seems to me that I
> have to set up a mail server of some sort, but I'm ignorant on that subject.
Create user accounts for all of your family members; Use fetchmail to suck
thier mail down; if necessary, use procmail to redirect it to the
appropriate user; use IMAP to serve it up.
--
Derek Martin
System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
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