On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 18:24:26 +0100
"Kasper Thunoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could anyone please give some pointers as to how a setup would look with a
> program (server) fetching email from a remote POP3 account and then making
> it possible for users on a LAN to fetch email from the local server.
Do you have fetchmail and postfix installed? You should if you chose to add
a mailserver during the install process.
If not,
urpmi postfix fetchmail fetchmailconf imap
or if you want fetchmail as a system service:
urpmi postfix fetchmail-daemon fetchmailconf imap
then create user accounts for all the LAN members.
configure fetchmail by running fetchmailconf, or edit the text yourself if you
wish, it looks something like this:
set postmaster "whatever"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
set daemon 600
poll pop.whatever.com with proto POP3
user 'xxxxxxxx' there with password 'xxxxxxxx' is 'kasper' here options
nokeep
poll pop.whatever.com with proto POP3
user 'xxxxxxxx' there with password 'xxxxxxxx' is 'lanuser1' here options
nokeep
poll pop.whatever.com with proto POP3
user 'xxxxxxxx' there with password 'xxxxxxxx' is 'lanuser2' here options
nokeep
etc.
See 'man fetchmail' for more options. When the file is saved, either save it to
/etc/fetchmailrc of ~/.fetchmailrc, depending on whether you are funning
fetchmail as a system service or not.
Now set the LAN mail clients to pop the IP of the mailserver, and yer done.
Well, hopefully ;-)
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