Net connection Problem

[Rick Stevens]

On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:17 -0600, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 09:10:13PM -0700, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > 
> > Well, this is what happens when no one is around....  I started
> > going through more books and came across the "route" command.  It
> > showed my gateway as 192.168.1.254 so I added a gateway of
> > 192.168.1.1 and deleted the .254 gateway and now I'm getting
> > email.  Really cool.
> > 
> > OK, now I've got some questions - one reason for putting
> > fetchmail on a different machine was it's always on so there is
> > less chance of mail building up on the internet.  The other
> > reason was so I could use multiple computers to read my email.
> > Checking out my new /var/spool/mail directory I see my mail
> > account grow when fetchmail goes out to get mail then it goes to
> > zero when Pine goes and picks it up.  i have a feeling it's
> > moving it to my local machine
> 
> That is correct.
> 
> > and this is going to mean I will
> > not have access to my mail from other comptuers (like my
> > notebook).  So, how do I set things up to allow that?
> 
> Have your local email client use IMAP instead of POP3.

Or set the POP3 client's option to "leave mail on server".

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