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Date:      Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:08:56 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jesse T Kipp <Zaphod@imailbox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD@Home---> POP3 Mail over dynamic PPP Dialup...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971028150652.15098K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19971028164253.24136649.in@mail.imailbox.com>

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On Tue, 28 Oct 1997 Zaphod.Beeblebrox@imailbox.com wrote:

> I am trying to configure my computer to send and reviece mail from a 
> pop3 mailbox, to my computer running FreeBSD 2.2.2: Any suggestions 
> for  software, faq's, procedures, and/or tutorials that would help me 
> do this (and leave me understanding what I did)?

See fetchmail in the ports tree.  That will grab your pop mail and put
iton the local box.  Write your mail as normal.  When you connect next
time, sendmail will send the mail for you.  There are some tricks to make
sure that sendmail doesn't hang on DNS lookups when you're off-net. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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