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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, October 09, 1998 8:28 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Web / Mail servers
>
>
>
> > I am a newbie to Linux and so please pardon me if my questions are
> > ridiculously stupid/ignorant.
>
>
> We were all new once. :)
>
Still am about a lot of the finer points....:)
> >
> > I am trying to set up the linux box to be my personal
> web/mail server. I
> > only have a 33.6k connection to my ISP and therefore cannot
> keep it up all
> > the time. My question is this : how can i set up my
> machine so that it
> > will download mail onto one place on my machine so that i
> am able to read
> > it offline, compose message offline and then send it out at regular
> > intervals.
>
> You'll want to read up on a service called uucp. Wish I could tell you
> more on that, but I've never used it myself. Try some web searches.
>
Even better, a pop mail program should be able to go and retrieve your mail
if it is just for one account. It will down load the mail into the account
it is launched from. With this program, you could probably create a shell
script that would launch your ppp connection (or slip if you prefer),
connect to the other network and retrieve your mail, and shutdown your ppp
connection. You should download a package and look at the documentation to
see if it is truly what you need, or want.
>
> I would also like to be able to set up my machine so that i can
> > host my own web pages and scripts so that i can learn perl
> and html better.
>
> You can install Apache web server in Linux. It may have come with your
> distribution CD, or you can go to www.apache.org to download it.
Great Server.... Easy to install and maintain....
>
> > btw Does anyone know how to set arena or lynx so that it
> routes through a
> > proxy.
>
> Sorry...not a clue here.
>
>
Do you have Xwindows?? If you don't install Xwindows. Then you can use
Netscape which has built in routing for proxy servers.....
Tim
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Timothy P. Hughes
Associate Technical Analyst
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
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> Bill Kocik
> Information Systems
> Medar, Inc.
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> Web: http://www.medar.com
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