Thanks Rob, The documentation is a bit confusing. No matter how many times I look through it, I always find something that I missed. Now I need to figure out how to implement this into my software *G*
-Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Arends" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 5:27 AM Subject: [xmail] Re: Pop3 syncing > Ys it is common, but obviously not with those that replied already. > > Please read the doco, it does describe your solution, however you need a > degree in Davide's writing style. > > <doco extract> > > "?home.bogus.com,felins.net,pets.org" "dlibenzi" "xmailserver.org"=> > "dlibenzi" "XYZ..." "CLR" > > and messages are dropped inside the spool by following these rules: > > XMail parse the message headers by searching for To:, Cc: and Bcc: > addresses. > > Each address's domain is compared with the list of valid domains > (felins.net, pets.org). > > For each valid address the username part is taken and joined with the '@' > and the masquerade domain name (the name following '?'). > > The message is spooled with the above built destination address. > > </doco extract> > > So, using the above example, if your local domain was home.bogus.com and you > had a domain pop account (pop account where all users mail for that whole > domain are placed), that had mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > [EMAIL PROTECTED], then these emails will match the rule and will be > downloaded. > The left of the '@' is used with the local domain (home.bogus.com - because > of the '?') to produce [EMAIL PROTECTED] > This email is then placed in the spool and delivered in the normal way. The > mail then finds itself in the correct local user mailbox. > > Pop3links.tab example > "?home.bogus.com,felins.net,pets.org" "name_of_local_account" > "isp_domain.org" "name_of_isp_account" "encryp_passwd" "CLR" > > Only thing is that I don't know why you would specify > "name_of_local_account" with a "?" in the first field, perhaps it is used > for undetermined emails. > > Does that clear it up. > > Rob :-) > > _________________________________________________ > Note To Self: Remember to put something witty here later... > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Adcock > > Sent: Friday, 3 December 2004 7:29 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [xmail] Re: Pop3 syncing > > > > 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] > > > > > > - > 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]
