On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 6:11 pm, JoeHill wrote: > > Ok, here's my plan so far: > > Run fetchmail as a system service (initrd?) at boot, I assume I need > then a *systemwide* .fetchmailrc, ie it will include all users and > accounts, correct?
Install the fetchmail-daemon RPM and it will do this for you. The config file is /etc/fetchmailrc > Okay, so Postfix is already running, *it* will > receive on port 25 from fetchmail, or so I've been told, and store the > mail for retrieval. But other than the "gremlins" reply (which was very > funny BTW, I am assuming it was a humourous way of saying RTFM ;)), I am > not clear on how Postfix operates as a POP server for the clients on the > LAN. For example, in say Sylpheed for the Receive config, would I just > put the IP of the mail server running Postfix, default port 110? Postfix does not provide a POP server. You can either read the mail directly from your spool file using your mail client, or you can run a POP3 or IMAP server. I use courier-imap and courier-imap-pop because it allows you to use a different username/password for email than for logging in > > Do I have to use the same user names and passes for clients to access > the Postfix mailstore as their accounts on the box itself, or do they > even have to have user accounts on the mail server (ie. can they *just* > have a Postfix username and pass)? Yes they do need an account on the server AFAIK > > Still reading, but they just keep talking about domain names and such, > fer chrissakes it's just a workgroup! > > Thanks for all the replies guys, if I get this working I'll make it a > Twiki page. All this stuff is discussed in my Postfix tutorial derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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