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Title: Need help with setting up with @HOME
Post by: Skitzo on June 20, 2000, 04:40:30 PM

Well, I am on the net with e-smith, and it's good.

However, I was wondering what are the exact settings I need to do to make this work perfectly.

I need help with the Name and Domain Settings, and also with the General e-mail settings.

Please help ;-)

Title: RE: Need help with setting up with @HOME
Post by: Skitzo on June 20, 2000, 04:43:33 PM

Also one thing I forgot to ask.


Is it somehow possible for e-smith to access my various pop3 accounts out on the net, and then save them under a user, and I can then log on with my e-mail client and retrieve the e-mails?

Basically an e-mail repository?

Title: RE: Need help with setting up with @HOME
Post by: Dan Brown on June 21, 2000, 09:48:43 PM

Yes, it's possible; you'd use fetchmail to do this.  You'd have to write a .fetchmailrc file and save it in the user's home directory, then log in as that user to start it when you boot the e-smith system.  The file would go something like this:

set daemon 300  # Poll at 5-minute intervals

defaults
        keep
# don't delete the messages after retrieving them
# I do this because I still want to use my normal client to get mail; I use the e-smith
# box as a webmail system.

# Use this for production
poll mail.earthlink.net protocol POP3:
        user popusername
        password thepoppassword;

# repeat as necessary