Is the LAN permanently connected to the outside world? If you're using POP
accounts I suppose it doesn't matter.
So you want to use your machine to download mail from 3 different POP servers
and then what? Act as a local POP server or deliver the mail to the local
machines?
My guess would be have a cron job which regularly connects to the POP servers
using (for example) fetchmail and downloads all the relevant accounts. I know
fetchmail will handle multiple accounts and drops. pppd will be called which can be (I
think)
configured to autodial if the connection has gone stale.
You will definitely need sendmail and if you want your machine to be a
popserver then probably a POP daemon as well.
If you're not going to be a local POP server then all the other machines will
need an SMPT daemon or sendmail configured so that they accept incoming SMTP
connections.
I can help with this last part. I have my work machine set up so that it
accepts incoming SMTP connections from the local POP server. The POP server
can be configured (via telnet) to forward all incoming mail via SMTP. So when
I go home I disable the forwarding and I can then check mail normally through
POP. Note that forwarding only forwards incoming mail, NOT mail already in the
account: that has to be extracted via POP normally
>Hey Guys, I nedd a little help, at school we have a small lan (6 machines) on
>the net. Right now there are all on the net, but I want to try my hands at
>setting my my machine to be the mail server for the other machines. My machine
>is connected to the net by modem, but it is a full time line, but has to
>redail every couple of hours do to bad phone lines. The good news id the I
>always have the same IP on the net. Now what I need/want to do is collect mail
>from 3 differnt POP3 servers and then allow the other machine to connect to my
>machine to download them from there.
>
>I think i need to use fetchmail and sendmail, but not for sure, any ideas woul
>d
>be great.
>
>
>Thanks
>
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>James Maes
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