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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Setting up FreeBSD as a POP client Date: 7 Jan 1995 12:32:09 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 14 Message-ID: <3em1k9$b48@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3ejrmk$4sb@umbra.unr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <3ejrmk$4sb@umbra.unr.edu>, Eric V Blood <eblood@cs.unr.edu> wrote: >I've just started up a SLIP account and I need to setup mail for >FreeBSD. I have a POP account which holds mail for all the >accounts on my host. What I would like to do is have the mail >distributed (in a clean way) to all the accounts. Any ideas? No problem - just use a pop-enabled mailer, like elm, or MH (both available in the ports collection). Each account will log itself in to your pop server and handshake for its mail after authentication. Should be pretty seamless! I've never set up local authorization, mind you. Something that's a bit more complicated, and harder to get working.. Jordan