[Gllug] Setting up a dialup for a friend

[Jason Clifford]

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Chris Bell wrote:

>    I am trying to set up a single dialup box for friends, users would be
> husband, wife, and three children, ISP probably the free waitrose.com
> facility. I am trying to decide whether to set up 5 separate accounts, but
> have not yet found information about doing this on a single box. Any
> suggestions please? Thanks.

I would suggest going for an ISP that offers sufficient email aliases or 
separate POP3 accounts so that each person can have a unique email 
address.

Then it's a simple matter of choosing how to handle the email locally. 
Assuming you are running Linux then an account for each person on the box 
provides the required separation.

Run a simple MTA setup locally (using fetchmail to download the email and 
pass it to the MTA for delivery) that runs in deferred mode and a small 
script in the dialup routine that sends email when you connect (and 
preferably also tells the MTA to process email every x minutes while 
online).

Jason Clifford
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