[Workaround.org] ISP style and fetchmail ???

petes-lists at thegoldenear.org petes-lists at thegoldenear.org
Tue Nov 13 14:31:07 CET 2007


>
> petes-lists at thegoldenear.org schrieb:
>
>  > Bear in mind what Christoph says, but also take into account:
>  > All my mail servers are not directly connected to the Internet (as I
> don't
>  > yet feel confidant enough about their security to do so) and I use
>  > Fetchmail on them all to collect from wildcard / catchall accounts.
>  >
>  > Fetchmail delivers to your SMTP server, you don't have to configure
>  > anything other than a simple Fetchmail config file to download the
> mail,
>  > the crux of which is for example:
>  >   poll pop.provider.net localdomains loonytoons.org toons.org:
>  >     user your_username with pass your_password to * here
>  >
>  > I have a guide to doing this, with an example Fetchmail config file and
>  > how to deal with catchall account difficulties here:
>  >
> http://thegoldenear.org/toolbox/unices/server-setup-debian-etch.html#fetchmail
>  >
>  > I relay outgoing mail to the ISP's smart host that will deliver mail
> on my
>  > behalf by adding relayhost = [<your ISP's SMTP server>] to
>  > /etc/postfix/main.cf
>  >
>  > Pete Boyd
>  >
>
>
> Thank's Pete,
>
> so far I'm running my mailserver the way you decribed above,
> except that I don't use catchall adresses.
>
> But as far as I know fetchmail delivers mail only to local
> accounts. If I want to run a server ISP-like, I need to make
> all incoming mails to be transferred from local to virtual users.
>
> Do you know a solution to this problem ???



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