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RE: [TCLUG:1315] Internet server (was: Why Linux?)



better than an email script, is the most wonderful mail util out there..
"fetchmail" it can get email, automatically, from just about anywhere.. using
any protocol, and filter it through anything.. and it will daemon in the
background.. checking different accounts.. 

On 22-Sep-98 Neal Tovsen wrote:
> I used the IP-Masquerade HOW-TO to get my two Windows/Linux clients to use
> the Internet through the modem on my server (waiting for DSL...HELLO
> USWEST!). It wasn't too hard, and I didn't have to recompile my kernel to do
> it. RedHat 5.0 seems to have it turned on by default. You may want to try
> skipping the kernel-modification step of the HOW-TO. It will save you lots
> of time if it works, and you'll know if it didn't. I like IP-Masq lots
> better than a proxy. With most proxys, you can _only_ use the Web. You have
> to install more special junk if you want to do mail, news, etc.
> 
> I had Dial-on-Demand working for a while (using the HOW-TO), but it seems as
> though Win95 sends out some funky network packets that the server
> interpreted as a request to connect to the Internet. If one of my clients
> was running Win95, even if nothing was open and no one was using it, my
> Linux box would spontaneously dial-up. There's nothing freakier than almost
> falling asleep at night, when you hear the modem dialing in the next room,
> and there's no one else in the house!! Anyway, I shut off D-O-D. Anyone
> happen to know if I could make it stop that?
> 
> There's also a HOW-TO for getting your mail automatically using a cron
> script, but I haven't played with it yet.
> 
> Good Luck!
> Neal
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry White [mailto:barry@pinenet.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 1998 2:10 AM
> To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:1267] Why Linux?
> 
> One of my goals
> is to try and configure my system so all the clients use the server to
> connect
> to the internet, and then also set up the server to automatically connect
> every so often and get my e-mail.  If anyone can help me with that, I'd
> appreciate it.
> 
> 
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Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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