On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:08:33AM -0600, Andy Zbikowski wrote: > You didn't mention a LDA (Local Delivery Agent, could also be refered to as > a MDA. Most likely this is procmail on your linux system.) See the Mail > Administrator HOWTO to figure out how e-mail works. > ( http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Mail-Administrator-HOWTO-3.html, > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Mail-Administrator-HOWTO.html ) I didn't huh? Hmm... Let's look back through the crystal ball and see what the ball can see... Firstly, you need to retrieve your email from other sources (POP or IMAP) and deliver it to your local machine. fetchmail(1) is the best tool for this -- bar none. Used in combination with procmail(1) as your local delivery agent (LDA), it makes a powerful combination for filtering incoming mail, blocking spam, and other useful things. bash# apt-get install fetchmail procmail Looks like I mentioned one. ;-p -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010322/ea5f0023/attachment.pgp