[help] can Linux route mail?

[Mark J. Dulcey]

On Fri, 15 Sep 1995, Dan Demus wrote:

>    The usual suggestions for handling this are:
> 
>    1.  Have the "dumb" machine retrieve its mail using POP.  To do that, you 
>    have to install a POP server on the "smart" system, and a client on the 
>    "dumb" one.
> 
> Is there an equivalent of `xbiff' for the dumb system, or does the
> user have to poll for their mail?

The POP client for Linux just moves the mail into the usual mail 
directory on the dumb system.  xbiff will detect it once it's there.  If 
you want the delivery to be automatic, you could run popclient 
periodically from cron.