On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Tim E. Patterson wrote:
> Does anybody have or know where I can get a script/program/agent that
> would periodically check & retrieve their email and then forward it to
> their local email address?
I do it like this:
* Have a friendly machine on the Internet set up an MX record for you in
its domain. For example, if your ISP is isp.com, get them to set up an MX
record for yourmachine.isp.com which points to uucp.isp.com.
* Set up sendmail on uucp.isp.com to pass mail on to yourmachine by uucp.
* Set up uucp on uucp.isp.com to hold mail until called.
* Set up yourmachine to call out hourly using uucp over tcp/ip and pass
the mail on to rmail which should pass it on to sendmail.
* Now have everyone .forward their mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . (Of
course they can include other addresses in their .forward file, including
that of their mailbox on the machine from which they are forwarding.)
It sounds complicated, but really it's pretty simple. The hard part is
getting uucp working on the remote machine. If they've never heard of
uucp before you may be out of luck. There must still be a few
uucp-friendly ISPs out there somewhere, though.
Ed
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