Hello,
Can you please tell me how this is done.That is how is the entry
in the crontab made so that the second alternative mentioned below is
done??
-V.Vasant
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Yes, it is possible. There are three general approaches:
>
> 1. Forward the mail from A to B using entries in /etc/aliases. To do this,
> you need to be running an SMTP server on B (to receive the forwards, send by
> SMTP).
>
> 2. Pull the mail from A to B, using POP3 or IMAP. You do this with a client
> like fetchmail, running as a periodic cron job.
>
> 3. Leave it on A and access it, from B, with a POP3- or IMAP-capable MUA.
> Netscape is one example; I think newer versions of pine support this too.
>
> There are probably other ways as well (NFS share the mail directory on A?
> never tried it, don't know if it works), but these three come immediately to
> mind. I think #2 is the common approach these days.
>
> At 09:19 AM 5/3/00 +0530, Sandeep Shetty wrote:
> >Hi all,
> > Now that we have two linux servers, one RH 6.1 which acts as a mail
> >server(say A) and another a RH 5.2 local server(say B) in the intranet.
> >Now what i want to do is instead of typing "telnet A" from B and checking
> >my mails, is it possible to create a user say "sandy" in B and my mails
> >from A should be present in B when i logon as "sandy"
>
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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