Okeydokey, sorry about that. Here we go ... I have an external POP3 box with my ISP that receives <anything>@myexternaldomain.org. On Mercury, I could just set up a connection to that POP3 box. It would periodically pull any e-mails from that POP3 box, and deliver the mails to all my local users accounts, based on the <anything> that was in the To: field of each e-mail. So, [EMAIL PROTECTED] got delivered to the local user "kris", and so on. Any e-mails which didn't find a home were delivered to a default local user.
Sorry for not explaining that earlier - I'd got it into my head that it was a common way of doing things. Obviously not! :) Cheers, Kris. Mike Harrington wrote: > I agree your post is confusing as to what exactly you're trying to > accomplish... If you have an external POP3 mailbox, and you want the > messages to be pulled from that mailbox and redistributed to multiple > accounts, you can create a mailing list and setup a POP3 link on the mailing > list; when new messages are pulled, they'll be distributed to the mailing > list. Or optionally you can do the same thing with a standard mailbox, add > a POP3 link, and setup your mailproc.tab with redirects and lredirects. > > Maybe you could clarify what you're trying to do. > > -Mike > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:01 PM > Subject: [xmail] Re: Pop3 syncing > > > >>Curious question: if you are sharing one POP3 mailbox among multiple >>users, how do the users know which messages are theirs? >> >>Perhaps you need to use the mailproc.tab file for the account that is >>fetching, and put the the routing logic in there. I've always thought 1 >>user = 1 POP3 mailbox. >> >>Kris Adcock wrote: >> >>>Well, I've dug out an old P2-400 and installed SuSE 9.2 and the xmail >>>rpm. I am SO impressed on how quickly it all went in! Thanks to everyone >>>who has put such work into xmail, and thanks also to Jeffrey Laramie - >>>your "Beginners' Guide to XMail on Linux" babysat me throughout! :) >>> >>>I've created my domain and have half a dozen e-mail accounts set up - I >>>can now send e-mails between them all quite happily. Now I want to set >>>it to fetch mail from my POP3 box at my ISP. >>> >>>I've found poplnkadd, but I'm a bit confused. What I would like is for >>>xmail to periodically pull the mail from my POP3 box and distribute any >>>messages to the correct users. But the poplnkadd command needs my local >>>domain AND a local user. Why is this? Does this mean that every e-mail >>>in the POP3 account will get delivered to that user, instead of being >>>distributed about? Or do I have to enter a poplnkadd command for every >>>user I create in the domain? >>> >>>Thanks for your patience! >>> >>>Kris. >>>- >>>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >>>the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >> >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >>the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > . > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
