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- From: rdew@ALW.NIH.GOV (Bob Dew)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: Messages & POP
- Message-ID: <Eefojyu0ts4j124ho0@alw.nih.gov>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 13:22:06 GMT
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- > In the AndrewSetup file you can specify a MailCollectionCommand that
- > will be called to collect your mail. What you need is a program that
- > talks POP and puts your mail as separate messages in ~/Mailbox. I have
- no idea weather this works, or if such a program is available.
-
-
- This can work nicely under AFS when the POP server is configured as an
- AFS client.
-
- The AndrewSetup "AMS_MailCollectionCommand" can point to a shell script
- which performs an authenticated rsh to the POP server, whereby "eatmail"
- is called to transfer mail from the POP server's spooling area to the
- user's home area Mailbox. That is, the mail collection command would
- look something like,
-
- /usr/afsws/bin/rsh Pop_server_machine /usr/andrew/bin/eatmail
-
- Without changing the mail system configuration, user's can elect to
- retrieve new mail via messages, or through their regular POP user
- interface. In this case, messages would be configured without AMDS
- support, but with AFS_ENV defined. Also, note that "Pop_server_machine"
- in the rsh example may be replaced with any SMTP mail hub.
-
- -Bob
-