Forward email to shell account (pine)

[wamacher]

I am going on a cruise in October. I have recently set up email accounts in Directadmin for three domains, which I read using Microsoft Outlook. Can I forward email from my three Directadmin email accounts to my linix shell account at my ISP? Can I do this without deleting emails from my outlook account and Directadmin domains so that I can still download all my email with Outlook when I return home?

If I forward the emails I expect to read email from my shell account while on vacation using Putty and pine or Squirrelmail in Internet cafes. I have been able to read my shell account many places in the world in this manner. Last trip I had only my shell account and had not yet established the accounts on my domains. So maybe Outlook will work overseas; I just have no experience using Outlook overseas. Maybe I am approaching this the hard way!

Note I will probably not try to read mail on the cruise ship. The last time they said they had a 256 kbit feed for everyone on the ship! Criminal! especially at what they charge per minute!

Wayne

 

[chrisrandell]

Uhm, i think you are approaching this in the hard way, outlook should work anywhere, its not region specific..... lol.. also same applies to squirrelmail, or anyother webmail on your server u should be able to login anywhere in the world and check your mail........

The only reaon i myself would use Pine or anything similar would be if i was checking email on a blackberry that had midpssh installed but not email configured. ....

Chris

 

[nobaloney]

Pine, or any other command line email reader will work on domain accounts (as opposed to virtual email addresses).

Here's what I'd do:

Before leaving on the trip I'd make sure the domain email account (the one you log into without the @example.com on the login) is empty, then install a forwarder for any email addresses you want to read, to that account.

Then you can shell in and read the email.

I disagree with user chrisrandell; I believe this will save you a lot of bandwidth and time, if for no other reason that you can delete emails from the command line without downloading them, just from reading the subject lines.

Jeff