Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:35:34 -0700 From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: General Unix mail info Message-ID: <20010125041549.F0E9037B400@hub.freebsd.org>
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Howdy.... This is probably a bit OT, but on the plus side the info that I garner will go a long way to furthering my understanding of the Unix way. ;,) I have a small LAN -- 1 FBSD box; 1 DOS box; 1 win95 box. My immediate problem is with my DOS box which has been Unix-ified as much as is possible (Korn shell; full complement of Unix utilities, etc.) I want to run PCElm or PC-Pine. -- No! I can't use my FBSD box to do email. Long story! I've been reading up on the user's "system mailbox" and his "personal mailbox", i.e. $HOME/mbox/duke. I now realize that these "mailboxes" are simply files into which email messages get appended -- as are various "topical" folders. The mail gateway program that I currently use saves my mail as .wrk and .txt pairs -- supposedly in "the Unix way". Works great with my DOS PMail MUA, but if I want to run a quasi-Unix MUA like PCElm, I need my mail saved in a Unix-like "system mailbox -- i.e. one big file. On a Unix system, fetchmail is probably the beast responsible for stuffing the "system mailbox" with POP3 stuff. With a permanent Internet connection, what program stuffs the "system mailbox"? I need to then find a DOS port for one of those suckers OR a utility that would convert .wrk/.txt files to a single "mailbox". I suppose that if I could get my mail saved to a "system mailbox" on my win95 machine, I could ftp the file to the 3.3R box, do my mail there, and ftp in again to grab the file. I've learned more about Unix mail in the last two days researching this issue than in the last year of plinking around with my FBSD box. Any help, suggestions, comments would be appreciated. Tia... -duke Calgary,Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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