[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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