On 25 May 2001 17:55:14 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 05:55:32AM -0700, Michael Manchester wrote:
>
> > I was wondering how hard it is to setup my RedHat 7.1
> > box to receive mail? I'm going to be out of town for
> > awhile and Yahoo has a max size for my mailbox and I
> > don't want to miss any posts to slug.
> >
> > Is it simple to setup Linux to receive mail? I'm not
> > worried about filtering out SPAM I can do that when I
> > return.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help on this.
> >
>
> Set up fetchmail and your dialer (or whatever) as a cron process to go
> off at X time daily. Make sure you set this to run as _you_, not root,
> and test it before you go. I don't think you need sendmail in order for
> fetchmail to deliver mail locally, but I could be wrong.
>
Yes it does, I have to have it running here at home for fetchmail to
work.
> Oh yeah, don't forget to set up a cron process to disconnect you from
> the net (assuming you have dialup).
>
> HTH,
>
> Paul
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