Mail Server

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 29.11.2004 schrieb Phil Brooks um 1:17:

> I need to download mail from an ISP using POP3 and then have it placed
> within the relivent users mailbox.

> "you need to use fetchmail!", which will be your next suggestion.

Right, fetchmail :)

> When I download mail, I need it to go to a straight to the mail queue e.g.
> postfix's mail queue, from there I want the Alias table to redirect the
> mail to which ever user its for.

Simply run Postfix locally. fetchmail will pass the fetched mail over to
the MTA.

> The main reason for this is that if there is a mail addressing error the
> error message will not be sent the originator.

What do you mean by addressing error? If the sender used a non valid
email address the mail would hardly be on the remote POP3 server
available. Only if the remote MTA would accept all mail by a catch-all
entry. But this is nowadays hardly to recommend (masses of spam and
virus/worm mails will quickly flood the mail recipient).

What should the alias do?

Maybe you want `"set postmaster "whoever"' in your .fetchmailrc file.

> Is there a standard way to setup Fedora as a local mail server to recive
> mail from an ISP via POP3 and the deliver it using say DOVECOT?

Install Postfix (if you prefer that over the standard installed
Sendmail), install dovecot if not already done and configure your custom
.fetchmailrc. That is the "standard way" and will run out of the box.

> Phil

Alexander


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