Quoting Federico Sevilla III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Fetchmail. ;) > > Seriously, before being blessed with a 24x7 DSL connection with a static > IP address, we used to have virtual hosting and would hook up only > intermittently using I-Manila. We used Fetchmail to retrieve email from > our "catch-all" address and had it rerouted to local mailboxes using the > Received headers.
I second the suggestion, enthusiastically. I set up one of my old consulting clients this way, using a FreeBSD box that polled a single mailbox for the entire company once every five minutes. Check the section on "Multidrop-mode" in the fetchmail FAQ: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-FAQ.html > You will probably still want an MTA that will handle outgoing mail via > your ISP's outgoing mail server, which will act as your MTA's relayhost. Yeah! Let's fight over which one it should be. ;-> -- Cheers, Higgledy-Piggledy / Kibo Ubiquitous, Rick Moen Greps for his name in the / Happynet spool. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Interdimensional / Cyberspace deity: Didaktyliaios / Dada is cool. -- Lewis Stiller _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
