From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 9:14:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2a.ispchannel.com (smtp.ispchannel.com [24.142.63.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E3A37BD5E for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:14:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vandena@ispchannel.com) Received: from cm-206-153-129-137.gulfbreeze.mediacom.ispchannel.com ([206.153.129.137]) by smtp2a.ispchannel.com (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 7d3764cdaca754bf8ae20adf0db2aa60) with ESMTP id <20000720161633.TBBC539.smtp2a@cm-206-153-129-137.gulfbreeze.mediacom.ispchannel.com>; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:16:33 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 11:14:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Steve Van Den Akker To: Sam Carleton Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: configuring sendmail for POP In-Reply-To: <3976EBDC.22C0529E@miltonstreet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just got done figuring this particular scenario out. Once you have sendmail up and running, You can install and use fetchmail to retrieve the mail from your pop3 server. A good "cheat sheet" can be found at http://www.mostgraveconcern.com. Once things are installed, you can either set fetchmail to use either a daemon or a cron job to check for messages. Steve On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Sam Carleton wrote: > My install of FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE was that of a bare install. I have > sendmail up and receiving/sending mail. The machine is on a dedicated > internet connections and I would like to setup sendmail to server me my > email via POP3 rather then just pine. Do I need any other programs to > watch port 110? How do I configure sendmail for POP3? > > -- > Sam Carleton > Please stop by http://www.maineville.net and > help my local police force! > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message