Firstly, Chroot is an exceptionally good idea... if all servers were like
that,
the net would be much more secure...
Secondly, you don't need to know much to configure fetchmail..
just run fetchmailconf from a console and follow it through..
I always make a root .fetchmailrc and put all pop3 stuff in there.. its
almost english in syntax..
here is an example:
set bouncemail
set no spam bounce
set postmaster "Postmaster"
set deamon 1000
poll mail.myisp.com with proto POP3
with user 'franki' there with password 'mypassword' is 'franki' here
options fetchall
Thats off the top of my head, so it might be slightly syntaticly off... but
its close..
then just run it from a console. (ie: fetchmail ) or start it on dialup, or
put it in rc.local whatever..
procmail and postfix will work together off the bat.. fetchmail gets the
mail, hands it to postfix, and postfix gives it to procmail for local
delivery.. nice and easy..
rgds
Franki
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall
Sent: Thursday, 10 October 2002 8:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] ML 9.0 - postfix calls *all* connections "unknown"
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 02:44 pm, you wrote:
> I have postfix on Mandrake 8.2 at home and it was a non-chroot install
> by default.
> Do you have fetchmail set up to translate from your isp address to the
> user that postfix is looking for? If your local address and your ISP
> address are not the same check the headers to see which "From" & "
> Reply To" addresses are being used. When I first set fetchmail-postfix-
> procmail-mutt up it took me several tries to get all the routing headers
> set to something the rest of the world could find. I still haven't
gotten
> around to setting up an email system on my home LAN so i can't help
> with that.
>
> Ray Warren
Okay, I kinda figured from the way the msgs were going that it was 9.0 only.
In answer to your question, I'm a total newbie when it comes to Linux mail
systems. Before I'd always just setup Kmail to use pop3 with my ISP. I just
wanted to learn more (and boy have I ever!) and try to set up mail for my
local LAN.
SO.... Nope - I hadn't touched any files that have anything to do with
fetchmail, procmail, or mutt. Can you tell me what config files for each
that
I need to check/change? Or better yet, I don't want to exhaust you, if you
can point me to a good "howto" or FAQ (like the one I found for setting up
NFS - it was clean, straightforward, and wonderful - I had NFS working in
about an hour!).
Thanks for all your help, Ray!
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