Help on mail configuration

From: Bruno Carneiro da Cunha (bruno.cunha.dont_at_spam.helsinki.fi)
Date: 09/28/03 

Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:01:09 GMT

Hi all,

I am a sort of 'reincident newbie' to linux, have been installing and
uninstalling linux on my machines for a number of years now. Recently I've
got an old PIII and installed RH9 on it. I'm actually impressed by the great
strides linuxes distributions have gone. If Wine takes care of the
occasional win32 program, I may give it another shot in my home computer as
weel.

Well, moving to the point: I'm currently trying to solve a problem.

- Problem: I currently need to connect to another computer to see my e-mail.
The remote computer only accepts port 22 (ssh) connections, and has no
Xserver running. I wanted to be able to run pine (or any other program) on
my local computer (running RH9) and fetch (and send) mail from the remote
computer without opening a ssh session manually.

As far as I know, I can implement these solutions:

- Solution 1: configure pine to open the connection automatically and fetch
/var/spool/mail/$USER and use sendmail. I need to fetch -- I think --
because the remote computer doesn't accept POP, IMAP or any other mail
protocols. The problem is that i) I don't know how to do that in pine, and
ii) The local computer is using openssh while the remote is using ssh2. I
can't seem to make publickey authorization to work.

- Solution 2: forward the mail to my local machine and run a mail server on
it. I wouldn't want to do that if I didn't have to, it may be a hassle
keeping the machine up and running 24h/day.

Any words on how I could accomplish any solution (no. 1 preferred), or links
to tutorials would be greatly appreciated.

Bruno

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