I'm trying to run a sendmail/imapd/getmail (or fethchmail, but getmail is what I'm playing with at the moment) setup to:
send mail from clients via SMTP collect mail from external pop accounts and distribute them to relevant users (we don't have a fixed IP) trap internal emails and hold them for collection forward email to one account for an external ISP I can successfully use sendmail to send to any external email address, but at the moment, I'm having two problems: 1. I can send mail to either username@domainname, or username@servername; but I can't get it via pop - the clients (Pegasus 4 on WinNT4) don't report any error code on sending or receiving, but the emails (tests only, thankfully) aren't found. The imap server is the Mark Crispin one that comes with Red Hat 6.2 - documentation is almost non-existent. I presume it's not finding the sendmail mailboxes, but I don't know how to change this. Any suggestions would be appreciated. 2. I don't know what to configure getmail to as the default directories into which it will place the got mail, so that imapd will serve them to the clients. It seems the sendmail mailboxes are files rather than directories (is this right?); how then do I post the emails to them? 3. I believe I can use sendmail to forward the emails externally using a /etc/mail/virtusertable; I've also picked up that I can create a .forward file in the user's mailbox, and it will be automatically forwarded (by sendmail or imapd?). Which is the better approach? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
