> Actually, I do use SWBELL's mail server. I use fetchmail to > access it. I > also have Pine set up to send mail via their mailserver. I do > have sendmail > going, but it does not send to the "outside world." But I'll > make sure that > is true of SquirrelMail too. Thanks for the heads-up.
There are also tools similar to fetchmail for hotmail and yahoo (I use "gotmail" to transfer mail out of my hotmail id to a local host for actual responses. Stick it in cron to run every hour or so, and watch the mail roll in). Also, if you're running in this configuration, consider configuring sendmail or postfix to use the SW Bell mail server as a "smart host". That way you get local queuing if for some reason they stop accepting mail, and your applications continue to work properly. Most of the Linux distributions have prebuilt configuration files for this sort of setup, or there's a menu option in yast or equivalent to set up "route all my outgoing mail through a designated host". -- db
