Re: Mail and POP3

[Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.yi.org>]

On 30/06/15 11:44, Martin G. McCormick wrote:
> 	I found an example for debian-etch which used fetchmail.
> Is that still the case for squeeze and newer debian releases?
> 
> 	Do I need to leave exim4 alone as it appears that
> fetchmail does all the moving?

I've done this before with numerous distributions in the past.

Basically you set up fetchmail to do the mail collection, and I think by
default it tries to use the local delivery agents to deliver mail to
local users.  So you set it up as a daemon to collect mail for a number
of users.

Your SMTP server then looks after local delivery and for delivery to a
smarthost outside your network (your ISP).

I don't recall what the exact configuration parameters are for
fetchmail, it's been a while since I've used it, but there is one that
controls who email from a particular account gets delivered to.  Once
you set that, and assuming your SMTP server (exim4 in your case) is set
up correctly, things should JustWork™.
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