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Linux off-line mailing method (offline mailaddr with 1 account)

Gunther Voet, freaker@tuc.ml.org - Belgium (CompuMed/TuCSRV)

v1.3.3, 4 June 1998

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Use your linux mailing system offline, receive mail for multiple users with only one email address, and without being 24-24 online on the net. If you are unable to pay a direct line to stay online for 24-24 and still want your users to receive mail on your linux box; as well not pay for a multi-drop box at your isp, you can use this system using only one email address to divide to your users email addresses. It is as well 24-24 reachable since the server where your account resists will receive the mail. This howto is Copyright (c)1997-98 by Gunther Voet.

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1. Notes by the author (preface).

• 1.1 Legal stuff
• 1.2 Copyrights
• 1.3 Feedback
• 1.4 Distribution
• 1.5 Changes
• 1.6 What am i using ?
• 1.7 Thanks go out to ...

2. Preliminaries

• 2.1 Preface & Description
• 2.2 Points of interest ...
• 2.3 Things you should know
• 2.4 there are 2 different ways ...

3. Requirements

• 3.1 A linux machine
• 3.2 A extra account at your linux machine
• 3.3 Fetchmail
• 3.4 Procmail
• 3.5 A mail account

4. I got it all, what now ?

• 4.1 Creating a .fetchmailrc file
• 4.2 Creating a .procmailrc file
• 4.3 "nosuchuserfile"
• 4.4 "crontab files".
• 4.5 "At the admins site".

5. Automation

• 5.1 The "skeleton".
• 5.2 addmail script

6. Help! (sigh)

• 6.1 The automation script just doesn't work:
• 6.2 What do you mean by "anonymous mailserver"?
• 6.3 My cat died
• 6.4 My dog died
• 6.5 Linux?
• 6.6 Can you help me with finding a mail account?
• 6.7 Why is the "maybe later i'll make some addition ..." removed ?
• 6.8 How do i get a "domain" ?
• 6.9 Why are you so f*cking lame using this?
• 6.10 Nosuchuserfile?
• 6.11 Can my users write/send mail too?
• 6.12 Does every user need a shell account at my server?
• 6.13 skeletion?
• 6.14 Addmail?
• 6.15 Why are you so cruel?
• 6.16 Didn't you get a complaint of excessive language ?
• 6.17 Why is this howto different than most others?
• 6.18 locally my domain works, but remote it seems not to receive
• 6.19 My dog died

7. The End

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