Re: *POP* goes the mail..

[Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>]

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?

Getting way off topic here...

Here in the States, the typical setup is dynamic SLIP to our ISPs.
Since I am generally not connected, and the IP changes every time I do,
I cannot have mail delivered to my machine.

When I dial-up, I can run fetchmail from my machine to get the mail from
my POP mailbox on my ISP, and fetchmail than delivers each message to
the SMTP port on localhost (no matter what IP address it is).

This then puts everything in the correct mailbox, and even allows for
.forward and .procmail files to be processed correctly.

Of course, the original poster said that the problem is at work, so
delivering to the STMP port is probably not an option (since that would
just drop it right back in the POP-box).

-- 
Colin