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From: "Matt Hyne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 11:22 AM
Subject: [SLUG] Fetching mail from a remote mail server
> Folks, I've been asked by a family member if I can help them with their
email system.
>
> They are running a Linux server + database which is connected to the net
via a dial-on-demand modem.
> What we want to do, is have all the mail for the domain (ie all mail to
mydomain.com.au) downloaded by the linux box and then redistributed to the
users' mailboxes.
>
> Now I have looked at this in the past and I found that there are problems
with using a central mailbox and a single POP client such as fetchmail to do
the job. In particular, if the destination email address is contained in a
bcc: field (ie from a list or alias), there is no way of the local system
knowing who the email is destined for. This also applies to email sent from
a forwarder.
That only applies if there is only one mailbox at the ISP - things should
work fine for multiple mailboxes -> multiple mailboxes.
> Does anyone know of any other methods that would be appropriate. The mail
volume is quite low - < 30 emails a day.
>
> I have also thought that UUCP over IP (and then pipe this to sendmail)
might me appropriate - are there any ISPs that can handle this (cheaply) ?
UUCP over IP would be the 'easiest' way. Its probably the hardest to find
somebody who supports it though since UUCP is largely seen to be obsolete.
The Permenantly connected node would be the MX for the UUCP host, and it
would have relaying enabled for the UUCP host, and mailertable rule to tell
it to deliver via UUCP. You'd also want to have reasonable message timeouts
on the sendmail host.
> Outbound mail works fine via sendmail - anyone know how to make sendmail
queue, rather than bring the link up for each message ?
add to your sendmail.mc:
define(`confSAFE_QUEUE', true)dnl
then regenerate your sendmail.cf
This will cause sendmail to queue incoming messages, rather than try to send
them immediately. [its considered to be safety feature to prevent mail loss
in case of system failure during a delivery attempt]. This is definately
supported in 8.10.2. You'll have to check your m4 config readme's to see if
your version supports it.
C.
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