Hi, On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Edmunds, Keith wrote:

I have an account with Demon (ISP). I want to collect all the email for my node via SMTP, then "serve it up" on my own LAN via POP3 so that each person can read their own mail on their own PC.

What packages should I look at to achieve this?

Have a look at "fetchmail"! Bye, LenZ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH <A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A> Schanzaeckerstr. 10 <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A">http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A</A>> 90443 Nuernberg, Germany - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e

Edmunds, Keith wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>I have an account with Demon (ISP). I want to collect all the email for my <BR>node via SMTP, then "serve it up" on my own LAN via POP3 so that each person <BR>can read their own mail on their own PC. What packages should I look at to achieve this?</BLOCKQUOTE> You shouldn't be using POP3 if your clients are connecting via a LAN - POP3 is OK for dialups but if you have a suitable email client, IMAP has several advantages over POP for LAN clients. IMAP allows clients to access their mail directly while it is in a remote mailbox on the server. The user can file their email in folders on this server or download it and file it on the client. Or both at the same time. The primary advantage is that if they keep their mail on the server then they can access it from any computer which can connect to that server as an IMAP client: from their desktop, from their laptop, from someone else's desktop on the fifth floor, or even from home, dialling in to the email server directly or via the internet. Also, of course, email can take up a lot of disk space and in a commercial environment some of your users may appreciate the opportunity to store their email somewhere else than their desktop PC's hard disk. Moreover the package that is provided with SuSE that contains the POP client also contains the IMAP client. There is no configuration to be done. Just uncomment the line in /etc/inetd.conf that mentions the imap server, then do 'killall -HUP inetd' and you're away. All that then remains is to configure the email clients to access remote IMAP directories and it's done. BTW, Netscape communicator 4.0x can access IMAP mailboxes if you should find that your current email client cannot. Regards <BR>Ralph <PRE>-- rclark@virgosolutions.demon.co.uk Ralph Clark, Virgo Solutions Ltd (UK) __ _ / / (_)__ __ ____ __ * Powerful * Flexible * Compatible * Reliable * / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / *Well Supported * Thousands of New Users Every Day* /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ The Cost Effective Choice - Linux Means Business!</PRE>