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>So many users, So few POP accounts</H3>
<p><strong>From Thomas Nyman
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I have recently entered the magical world of Linux (<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</A> 7.0). In the
You see I would like to configure my linux machine so
that it polls a couple of pop accounts via a dialup ISP, and the distributes
any mail to users on the local network. In my mind a reasonable request. I
understand that sendmail and fetchmail can be used in this respect (although
sendmail "sends" mail and does not collect it). I have so far been inable to
find out exactly what I need to configure (besides fetchmail) to do this. I
have also tried to configure sendmail to no avail, it keeps complaining that
I have not set a que and have not set a mailbox...but try finding a how-to
that tells you how to setup a que and a mailbox locally - I cant do it. I
have also tried to instal qmail. I've downloaded a tar.gz file. Unpacked it
with gunzip and the run the tar -xvf comman on it. SO fall all looks fine. I
have then followed the install instructions and goes well untill I reach the
part of the install instruktions that instructs me to "make setup check",
many attempts have been made but qmail simply will not understand the
instruction..hence I cant continue the installation....ah but I digress...the
point is I want to collect popmail from different pop accounts and distribute
it to either eudora och outlookexpress on windows machines..can I do
this..and if so whaich programs do I need to configure and how???
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> [Mike]
Fetchmail works by popping the mail down, changing the envelope-to
address and passing it on to the local mail-transfer program for final
delivery. So the first step is to get a working mail-transfer program.
This can be sendmail, qmail, exim, postfix, smail, etc.
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The next step is to set up your .fetchmailrc. Assuming all the mail
from each pop account is going to a single user, you can use a configuration
like this:
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<blockquote><pre>poll pop.my-isp.net
proto pop3
user bob there with password XXXXX is bobby here
poll pop.my-other-isp.net
proto pop3
user frederick there with password YYYYY is fritz here
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Now, each time fetchmail runs, bobby and fritz will find their pop mail in
their Unix mailbox. You would then need to make that mailbox visible to
Eudora or Outlook Express somehow, but that's another issue.
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If your mail transport agent seems to be working but popped mail is still
being lost, use fetchmail's -v flag to determine whether fetchmail is
generating the correct recipient address and whether the mail transfer
agent is accepting the message.
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If you wish to distribute mail from a single pop account to several
Unix accounts, it's more complicated. You could have
fetchmail deliver it all to a single account which then uses procmail to
distribute it (e.g., according to a special prefix in the subject).
Or you could use uucp instead of pop/fetchmail. Uucp was designed for the
"my site has multiple users but I only have one ISP account" problem, but
pop was not. Pop was designed assuming each user would have their own
mailbox at the ISP. However, finding an ISP that supports uucp nowadays
is difficult, they may want a higher price for it, the configuration
would be more complicated, and it would probably work best if you had your
own domain.
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