Subject: Re: Mail system
To: Rick Copeland <perry@piermont.com, rickgc@calweb.com>
From: Ask Dr. Stupid <greywolf@starwolf.starwolf.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/12/1997 20:48:26
"Perry E. Metzger" sez:
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* Rick Copeland writes:
* > I am looking for a mail system that I can use with Netbsd 1.2.1. Currently
* > I have 40 users in a workgroup dialing out using Eudora for Windows each
* > with his/her own modem. What I would like to do is use my NetBSD 1.2.1 box
* > to dial the ISP and down-load up-load email and then let the users fetch
* > their email off of the NetBSD 1.2.1 box. Has anyone got any ideas how I
* > could do it or if it is possible?
*
* Get the mail from the ISP using UUCP or something similar. (If you can
* rig things to get the mail delivered during your dialup that will be
* fine, but hard.)
Not hard at all, if you have your DNS set up properly (in the outside
world). I do this on a constant basis using ETRN on my ISP's sendmail.
If your ISP runs sendmail v8, ETRN should be available.
This does require having a local DNS running as well, but that's
easily enough done.
*
* Perry
*/
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