Michael A. Kenny wrote: <snipped> > Currently my wife uses > Outlook to access the internet and download e-mails via pop3 > while I use > evolution to achieve the same results.
I assume evolution is also configured to use POP3? > What I want to set up, if it is possible, is to have a server > periodically connect to the internet and download e-mails from two > sources into james. And then to have Outlook and evolution connect to > james to obtain our mail. If those two sources are POP3 or IMAP accounts, then you want to use fetchmail. If those two sources are POP3 accounts, you can use fetchmail or fetchPOP. fetchmail is in the latest 2.2.0a## builds only, while fetchPOP is in the 2.1.3 and the 2.2.0a## builds. fetchPOP is being deprecated in favour of the more powerful and resilient fetchmail. If you are happy to go with the latest 2.2.0a## builds, use fetchmail. > 1. how do I configure james to obtain the DNS address from > ppp? I am not > running DNS locally and don't really want to, though if somebody can > provide me with or point me to an idiot's guide to setting up a simple > DNS I may give it a try Your machines will be configured to use the DNS servers of your ISP. These same servers should be added to the James configuration. You do not need to run your own DNS. > 2. is it possible to configure evolution to use james as a > mail server? > If so, how to do this? > 3. same for Outlook? Both mail clients will currently be pointing at your ISP's POP3 (or possibly IMAP) servers. You point fetchmail at these and then point your mail clients at James' POP3 server. Note, that you will have to define each mail recipient as a user to James. > Sorry if these are dumb questions They aren't dumb. You have to start somewhere. -- Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
