Topic: Multi POP Accounts - Help please

[Norrie]

Hi all,

I wish to use my e-smith v5 box to collect mail from a few POP3 accounts and forward them to other addresses...

user1@domain2.com goes to someone@anotherdomain.com
user2@domain2.com goes to someone@anotherdomain.com AND someone-else@anotherdomain.com.

I've installed the Multi POP rpm and added domain2's POP acount details and added a forwarding address too but it doesn't seem to work.  Am I on the right track?  Is there some other configuration I have to do?

Many thanks in advance for any help.

Norrie
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[Jeroen Maatman]

First, modify the settings in the multipop tab. Second, go to the email retrieval tab, modify the settings (if needed) and hit the save button. When you hit the save button all the settings (also the ones made in the multipop tab) will be saved.

good luck

Jeroen

[Kelvin]

Hi Norrie,

I use the contributed RPM written by Vincent Filali (www.chez.com/vinc28/fetchmail.html) instead of Stephen's one from e-smith's web site. It appears to be more flexible and supports a lot (I really mean a lot) of POP mailboxes per user.

Hope this helps.

Kelvin

[norrie]

Thanks for the replies,

The multi pop contrib works fine in that all mail from the pop account is delivered to one address but I want to forward mail from several recipients to one or more forwarding addresses.

Help!

Thanks again
N.

[Kelvin]

Norrie,

Perhaps you need to use either groups or a mailing list manager to accomplish this.

With groups (a long winded way to accomplish what you want), you might create an account for each addresses to be forwarded to and set their mail to be forwarded to their actual e-mail address. Then in the multipop engine, specify the name of the group as the forwarding address. I haven't actually tried this out myself so I don't actually know the pitfalls .....

With a mailing list manager, you could set up lists for the target addresses, then again in the multipop engine, specify the list names as the forwarding addresses. Again, I have not actually tried this but the idea behind it should be sound.

Good luck !

Kelvin

[Norrie]

Kelvin thanks again for your reply.



With a mailing list manager, you could set up lists for the target addresses, then again in the multipop engine, specify the list names as the forwarding addresses. Again, I have not actually tried this but the idea behind it should be sound.

That sounds like a good way to go.  I notice there's another topic on this just started.

Thanks

Norrie
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[Norrie]

Sorted!

Created a new group eg. "newgroup"
Added users belonging to newgroup eg "info" and "webmaster" and selected the "use procmail" option in the new users' email delivery drop down menu.
I added the POP details in the multi POP panel and put in the name of the group for delivery.
I edited info's and webmaster's .procmailrc and added...

0:
*
! person1@email1.com person1@eamil2.com ...person-n@email-n.com

This seems to work ok but...

Does anyone know if I can delete the rest of the contents of the file (apart from the user recipie) as the mails never need to be delivered locally?

Do the recipients of the forwarded mails all have to appear on one line or can I separate them with new lines?

Thanks for the help.

N.