Thank you very much. My consideration for fetchmail is following:
1. We do not have enough space in the internet mail server. We have near about 35 mail account, and we have quota 10MB for per user. We like to create more spaces for some users locally. 2. In the first two office hours (9:00-11:00am) we get internet bandwidth very slow for downloading and uploading mails. We need to handle that fast by cashing mails in our local server. 3. All mails will downloaded by our local server in the morning I mean before 9:00am so that we can easily download from our local server. Hope you can understand my requirement. Thanks Xavier F Gomes --- In [email protected], linux bangladesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > DISCLAIMER: I do not consider myself a guru, not even remotely anything like > that :D > > With that said, may I please enquire as to why you plan to use fetchmail? Say, > for example, if you have a 24/7 internet connection, then you can use any mail > user agent like ThunderBird or Netscape to download mails to your local > machine. Since you already have a domain hosted somewhere, and presumably you > have mail boxes set up somewhere too, it is in my opinion the normal practice. > All you need is POP3 or IMAP and SMTP open at the gateway from your local > provider (or the secured ones, based on your needs). That way, you can > configure your MUAs to exchange mails DIRECTLY from your domain server -- > without being handicapped by any other parties. > > Fetchmail, the way I see it, is an effective tool for mostly off-line users or > users who needed (I am using past tense here, since none of the MUAs had the > provision to setup multiple mailboxes in one go -- it was a bit hectic for > average users) to keep multiple mail boxes in sync -- i.e., say, you had > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on, but > preferred to have > all the mails in one box -- your local server. In such cases, fetchmail WAS a > very handy tool. But now a days you can configure multiple mail boxes in one > MUA, and thus fetchmail has lost its charm to some extent. > > Now, if you plan to setup your linux box as your primary EMail server, then it > is a totally different story. You need to configure your domain's DNS to point > to your ISP's mail exchanger as primary MX (considering you don't have any > realIP. But if you DO have RealIP, then you can point to that with no problem > at all), and then configure your box to exchange mails with your ISPs mail > server (part of the setup will be done at the ISP level, which the ISP will do, > and part will be done at your end -- telling the server to use the ISP mail > server as a mail hub), It's not complecated though, but the process will vary > depending on your choice of MTAs and POP3/IMAP servers. > > I have not said a single word about fetchmail, I know, mainly because others > have already responded to that -- RTFM, the man page is quite sufficient. > > happy linuxing. > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through Virus Free Email > http://www.vfemail.net > To unsubscribe send a blank mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bdlug/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
