Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 00:18:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Anil John <ajohn@cyberforge.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu Subject: Re: Popclient--FreeBSD--FWTK Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960920001649.1049E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199609200023.UAA19412@onramp.i95.net>
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On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Anil John wrote: > Greetings, > > I currently have a Win95 machine connected by ethernet to a FreeBSD > machine which is connected to the Internet by dial-up PPP. > > I am using the FWTK for NAT on this setup. It enables me to run a > WWW Browser on my Win95 machine and go out onto the Net. > > My problem is that I currently have multiple POP accounts and FWTK > will allow you to connect to only one.... Huh? I don't quite understand. The mail would be fetched from three separate sessions, right? > A solution that I am thinking will get me around this is if a run > some sort of a mail package on my FreeBSD machine to get the mail > from my various mailboxes and store them on the FreeBSD machines. I > would then use a Win95 mail client (Pegasus) to connect to my FreeBSD > machine and read the mail. > > My question is, Is this feasable? Does the Popclient package allow > you to do this (i.e connect to multiple POP mailboxes) and retrieve > the mail and store it in a format that can be read by a Win95 POP > mail client? Sure. You could either use 'popclient' from ports or setup .forward files on your other mailboxes to point to your FreeBSD machine. I have many mail accounts on many Unix boxes, so I dropped .forward's in them all to forward them all to this account. Now I check my mail once instead of four times :-) > If it does, how do I set up my Win95 mail program (mailbox, passwd > etc) to connect to my FreeBSD machine? You'd have to check Pegasus's docs on that one. It assumes you're running a pop server on your FreeBSD box though I'd bet. > If this question has been answered before in a FAQ, a pointer would > be appreciated... 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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