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From: "Ralph Slooten" <axllent@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Multi-user pop3 mail delivery
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:29:20 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17bd4e850611161629k53f7da19h464ffee7344692ef@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi Guys.

I am trying to replace a server setup at one of our client's offices.
They have a domain name, and an email account - both hosted by a 3rd
party. This third party gives them a single pop3 account where all
email is stored (for all <users>@domain.com), downloadable by a single
user login.

Now the old setup (which I had nothing to do with) uses fetchmail to
poll the server every 10 minutes, and then forwards the mail to the
smtp on the localhost.

I have tried to replicate this, but am hitting several disadvantages,
one being that all spam messages sent to non-existing users are
forwarded to the local postmaster account. I keep thinking that there
must be a much more logical way to do this. When I try it without
setting the postmaster messages are not bounced.

How is this setup normally done? The local server has postfix running,
but is *not* accessable from outside directly (firewalled). Mail will
have to be polled I guess.

I am using the following fetchmail conf:

set postmaster "postmaster" set bouncemail set properties "" set
syslog set invisible set daemon 600 poll pop3.server.com
    protocol POP3
    checkalias
    timeout 30
        envelope "Received:"
    localdomains mydomain.com
    user accountuser pass accountpass to * here
    smtphost localhost
    smtpaddress mydomain.com
    fetchall;

Any advice?

Thanks in advance,
Ralph
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             reply	other threads:[~2006-11-17  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-17  0:29 Ralph Slooten [this message]
2006-11-17  0:38 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Multi-user pop3 mail delivery Ralph Slooten
2006-11-17 10:24   ` Neil Bothwick
2006-11-17 20:42     ` Ralph Slooten
2006-11-17 23:23       ` Neil Bothwick
2006-11-18 10:09         ` Ralph Slooten

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