Re: Mail and POP3
On 2015年6月30日 12:10:50 JST, Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.yi.org> wrote:
>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™.
Also, there are very nice tutorial @workaround.org (for postfix/dovecot though for the latest ones)
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