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At 06:03 PM 6/8/99 +0200, Jarmo Paavilainen wrote [in part]:
>I want to make my Linux server to dial (4 times a day) to my ISP (PPP) and
>fetch all mail. Then store them until I run my client (Win98) and POP3 them
>from there.
>
>What I need is:
>
>1) The PPP deamon -> To make the connection.
Close but not exact. You nee BOTH pppd (the ppp daemon) and some dialer to
make te modem connection. By hand (or from a cron file, if that's the
approach you select), you can use chat for this second function. For an
automated system that dials on demand, you need something like diald .
>2) sendmail -> To fetch and store
sendmail doesn't fetch. sendmail accepts SMTP connections initiated by the
other end. To get your side to request stored mail, you'll need to use pop3
for the downloads, using fetchmail or an equivalent. It then relies on
sendmail to parcel out the mail to appropriate mailboxes.
>3) POP3 deamon -> So I can fetch the mail from my Linux server
Yes. This will allow users to get the mail from the Linux host to their
individual hosts. BTW, this is usually run as an inetd-based service. Look
in /etc/inetd.conf and see if you have a line for pop3 commented out - all
you may need to do is uncomment it and reinitialize inetd ("killall -HUP
inetd" is one way).
>4) Cron -> To start the PPP connection four times a day.
Yes. Or you can use demand dialing and let fetchmail itself call for a
connection to be made.
There is probably a HowTo on this, but if not, you'll get additional help
from the man pages on fetchmail, inetd, hosts_access (explains inetd
security), diald (if you have it installed), cron, and crontabs .
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