[geeks] Q: How to set up "private" Presto email service?

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:50:49PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> HP has an offering called the "HP Printing Mailbox" which is a printer
> with an embedded computer that dials an email server, downloads and
> prints all the emails sent to a particular address. There are other
> services as well, but that is the big one - see here for more info:


> Mythought would be that I establish an email account on my server, and
> establish a dial-in port, then I would configure a PC (WinXP, Linux,
> other) to dial up and download and print all email as it is recieved.
> The PC would dial my server and access a private email address,
> hopefully eliminating "spam" email, as the address would never get
> out...

I'm confused. What part do you want to duplicate? 

The way I see it there are two ways of doing this:

1. Replace the server that the HP unit dials.

2. Use something completly different for the same function.

Geoff.

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