On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> To Whom,
>
> Where can I find detailed documentation for .fetchmailrc? I have
In the fetchmail source. There is a man page, a FAQ and other
stuff.
> .fetchmailrc setup, but don't know if it is to my liking. Also, how does
> one broadcast a message to all users on a local or subnet system without
> every individual address?
Install sendmail and use an alias. See the Bat Book ("Sendmail",
published by O'Reilly).
> How do I retrieve and send news messages from the ISP vendor and locally
> in Pine? I have a news file in /var/spool/mail loaded with things
Do you mean news? In /var/spool/mail? If so, format your disk and
install a new Linux system.
Don't try to run a news server. Find out from your ISP the address
of its news server and enter that name as nntp-server in the Pine
setup.
It's probably better to use a dedicated news reader, rather than
Pine. That makes it easier to subscribe to groups, and you can
choose a threaded news reader. For a general setup, set
NNTPSERVER=mail.server.adr in the environment.
If you want to use Pine, create folders with names like:
*{mail.server.adr/nntp}comp.mail.pine
and open them to read news.
> waiting to come into pine, but I'm unable to bring it into pine. News
Set inbox-path to that file (S, C in main menu, or edit .pinerc.)
> automation commands similar in liking to .fetchmailrc and fetchmail in
> the /etc/ppp/ip-up with "fetch -c 300" and /etc/ppp/ip-down with
> "fetchmail -q" would be appreciated.
This isn't clear and I don't use fetchmail, but you can put any
valid shell command in ip-up. Check the man page.
> For OS information: I'm using Red Hat 4.2 with a 2.0.30 kernel. All ISP
> vendor exchanges are done through a modem.
Using ppp, presumably?
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