Greetings all

Can anyone recommend software for offline
mail and usenet? I am on dialup so I like to just
get/send it all in one bunch and read it and
compose replies later on while offline.
On windwos I used hamster classic as a
local mail and news server. I would then access
it via 127.0.0.1 from a newsreader and an email
program.
Ideally I would like to have the same
sort of situation in linux.
Thank you in advance.

On 2004-12-07, Bob wrote:
> Greetings all
>
> Can anyone recommend software for offline
> mail and usenet?

[dial-up-line]

For usenet i would recommend leafnode. For mail you can use fetchmail
and spool them locally. The rest of the setup can be built as flexible
as your preferences are.

--

Robert...

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 11:45:33 -0500, Bob wrote:

> Can anyone recommend software for offline
> mail and usenet? I am on dialup so I like to just
> get/send it all in one bunch and read it and
> compose replies later on while offline.
> On windwos I used hamster classic as a
> local mail and news server. I would then access
> it via 127.0.0.1 from a newsreader and an email
> program.
> Ideally I would like to have the same
> sort of situation in linux.

Mail)

To retrieve your mail from other servers : fetchmail
To deliver that mail locally & accept outbound mail : postfix or exim
To give non-Linux mail clients POP and/or IMAP access to local mail : imap

All Linux mail clients run on that same machine can access the local mail
spool directly, so if all your mail is read locally, you don't need imap.

You'd want to throw together a script that calls "sendmail -q" (if using
postfix) to deliver any queued mail, sleeps for a minute or two to give
bounces time to arrive, and then calls "fetchmail" using your .fetchmailrc
file; you'd then run this script at the end of whatever method you use to
bring up your dialup connection. If your .fetchmailrc file is set up for
daemon mode, fetchmail will continue to check for new mail periodically
while the connection is up; run a similar script before disconnecting that
calls "fetchmail --quit" to end the daemon.

News)

Leafnode is a news proxy server that does exactly what you describe. Once
configured, add "fetchnews" to both the post-connect *and* pre-disconnect
scripts, to send any queued posts and fetch any requested headers/bodies.

HTH!

--
Bill Mullen
RLU# 270075

Bob <rock@almost.bestweb.net> writes:

> Greetings all
>
> Can anyone recommend software for offline
> mail and usenet? I am on dialup so I like to just
> get/send it all in one bunch and read it and
> compose replies later on while offline.

I am currently using Gnus with Leafnode, getmail, and qmail. I know
fetchmail is the most popular of the mail "downloaders" but, if you
want something a little easier to set up, I would recommend
getmail. Of course, I have not seen a GUI for getmail either, but I
assume you want to edit config files.

qmail just does Maildir well, and seems to work well enough for me,
its set up was quit straight forward.

Leafnode was a bit of a pain, but still nothing big.

I would follow the other advice as well when configuring scripts to
help automate your life. :-)

- Arctic Fidelity

Arctic Fidelity wrote:
> Bob <rock@almost.bestweb.net> writes:
>
>
>
>
> I am currently using Gnus with Leafnode, getmail, and qmail. I know
> fetchmail is the most popular of the mail "downloaders" but, if you
> want something a little easier to set up, I would recommend
> getmail. Of course, I have not seen a GUI for getmail either, but I
> assume you want to edit config files.
>

I tried fetchmail and it was a pain in the ass. I still
don't know where it put the mail it fetched, so I won't use
it.

I will try getmail. thank you

> qmail just does Maildir well, and seems to work well enough for me,
> its set up was quit straight forward.
>
> Leafnode was a bit of a pain, but still nothing big.
>

leafnode was a real pain but I got that working

> I would follow the other advice as well when configuring scripts to
> help automate your life. :-)
>
> - Arctic Fidelity
>