From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Cc: "Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
Gnus Mailing List <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: *POP* goes the mail..
Date: 14 Aug 1997 14:54:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8690y42zx5.fsf@kramer.in.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: joda@pdc.kth.se's message of "14 Aug 1997 22:33:17 +0200"
joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) writes:
> "Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
>
> > FYI, the best POP solution I've seen is one that uses a program
> > called fetchmail to fetch the e-mail via POP and then feeds it via
> > SMTP to your localhost at port 25.
>
> Eh, if you want the mail delivered to your computer why don't you just
> have it forwarded there in the first place?
1) You don't have a static IP address
2) Your machine isn't up all the time
3) Your machine is not directly connected to the public network
-Bill P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-08-14 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-08-14 8:02 Andy Eskilsson
1997-08-14 10:01 ` Steinar Bang
1997-08-14 14:55 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1997-08-14 22:12 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1997-08-14 15:27 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-08-14 19:03 ` Edward J. Sabol
1997-08-14 20:33 ` Johan Danielsson
1997-08-14 21:54 ` William M. Perry [this message]
1997-08-15 0:14 ` Johan Danielsson
1997-08-15 4:13 ` William M. Perry
1997-08-14 22:30 ` Colin Rafferty
1997-08-14 12:09 ` Johan Danielsson
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