-----Original Message----- From: Adrian Wells [SMTP:adrian-wells@175-nbr.freeserve.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 11:06 AM To: Simon Wood; Schools List Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Router IP addresses

Would James need a permanent connection to do this rather than a dial-up? otherwise mail would be returned if he is not visible to the net. [Simon Wood] Yes, you could try it on a dial up (if it were up enough of the time), but the senders machine would try to deliver and fail, it would probably enforce a timed wait before trying again. These waits could mean that it would never try at the same time that you were connected, and eventually the email would be returned to sender as undeliverable.

What I would like to do at home is use a POP3 dial-up account (e.g.. Freeserve which allows anything@domain and is free) as though it were SMTP and segregate the mail for different users. Has anyone done this? [Simon Wood] This is standard practice using Fetchmail. Assuming that you are linux based at home...

Lots of info on Fetchmail URL http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/ Example configure file (.fetchmailrc) goes something like, though there are probably many ways to do it poll mail.isp.com proto POP3 username mailaccount password mailpassword user rod is user1 here user jane is user2 here user freddy is user3 here This will grab all email in the 'mailaccount' POP3 mailbox, look who it is for & adjust names if necessary and throw it at your local Mail Transfer Agent (MTA, sendmail, exim. etc.) rod@mailaccount.isp.com will got to user1. etc. I use this feature to provide mapping of real names to user names, i.e "simon.wood" -> user "simon" Hope this is helpful, Simon W. PS. I had the mispleasure of using freeserve (in PC world to look up Monitor spec) last sunday, and it was dog slow.... you might be pleased with the other 'free' ISP's. Personally I use uklinux.net and would recomend it.