Re: Mail and POP3

["Martin G. McCormick" <martin@server1.shellworld.net>]

Stuart Longland writes:
> 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?.

Thank you and others. This all makes sense. I've got about a
month to make it work which is hopefully about 30 more days than
I need.

Martin