Fw: [ilug-cal] A few details on students accounts !

["Indranil Das Gupta" <indradg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

- ----------
> From: INIGO <inigo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: ILUG Cal <ilug-cal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ilug-cal] A few details on students accounts !
> Date: Thursday, July 08, 1999 11:57 PM
>=20
> Hi Ppl !
>=20
> I realized that quite a few of our members possess students shell
> accounts with VSNL. And the ones like Rajarshi also downloads his mail =
[
> using fetchmail ?]. Thus I had a few queries since I intend to migrate
> to Linux for handling my mail ....
>=20
> #1. I used Eudora to get my mail and noticed that it was accessing and
> sending mail using telnet ( port 110 to send port 106 to change
> passwords et al ). So how does binaries in Linux access the mail in
> students account directly and get the mail since access to my account i=
s
> VERY restricted (as I got to realize) ?
>=20
> #2. How could I rig up something like Netscape mail to get and filter m=
y
> mail ( remember we are talking STUDENTS account here ! ).
>=20
> #3. How do I get to send off all my mail that I wrote off-line and
> queued just like I did in Eudora Lite. I don't really fancy the concept
> of "cut-and-paste" for each msg as Rajarshi once suggested as that woul=
d
> SUBSTANTIALLY inflate my phone bills as I DO send a lot of mails.
>=20
> #4. Eudora has filters which channelizes my mail to my myriad tree of
> mailboxes for easy viewing automatically after bringing in the mail. Ho=
w
> do I accomplish the same in :
>=20
> a. Netscape [ The "Mail Filters" here are more designed to block spam i=
t
> seems !]
> b. Pine
>=20
> Please send detailed instructions if you have solutions/ideas to any/al=
l
> of the above enquiries. I also propose that if we DO know of and/or
> manage to stream line the process above, it would be something that is
> constructive which we can put up in our web site as a tutorial or
> something. If necessary I am willing to collate the data and make/write
> the page/frame/tutorial as per specification for our web site in this
> matter.
>=20
> Again I would request somebody to please post it in the main Linux list
> as my account expired today and I am in the ham strung process of
> getting ALL my mail channelized temporarily through a web based POP
> account ( courtesy a friend who will log me in intermittently !) and
> thus can't handle the volume !
>=20
> Indra--- since you were asking, this is definitely one of the topics
> that I would like culled from the mail ILUG list. Sorry I could not
> package my request as per your requests !
>=20
> INIGO
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> *************************************************
> Win an =95850 Gourmet Gas Grill. REGISTER NOW!!
> Link to http://www.energy.com/about/benefits.asp
> *************************************************
>=20
> --
> To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with the body
> "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line.
> FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/faq/listfaq.html

- --------------------------------------------------------------------
For more information on Linux in India visit http://www.linux-india.org/
Please do not post HTML email to this mailing list.  HTML mails will be
thoroughly ignored and derisively sniggered at in private.

------------------------------