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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
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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