Topic: pop3 accounts

[darren]

Hello,

I seem to be having a few problems with my recently installed e-smith box.

I'm having trouble working out how to get my/and others pop3 mail from the various isps been used.

Do I need to configure fetchmail, or maybe forward all mail to one account  ?

For all I know I may be asking for the impossible.

Anyone got any ideas ?

Cheers for any help

Darren

[Patrick Basile]

Darren,

Well here is the setup for multiple POP account retrieval from the User Contributed HOW TO section.

ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/StephenNoble/RPMS/noarch/readme-pop.html

I am using a slightly different setup than this, but what I'm finding with the e-smith server is this - if you want to do something...there's probably a way to do it with this server and software.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Regards,
Patrick

[Jochen Hoegerl]

The e-smith server can with a "standard" install only fetch one pop-account.
You can forward all mails to one account and fetch this. As the users might
be unknown to e-smith depending on your settings thy will be forwarded to the
admin or other user you have defined as recipant for administrative things
or BOUCNED to the sender. So check this first to be not bounced.
Then open the mails an check the headers for the line where the correct recipant
is listed.
Go in your e-smith-manager (email retrievel)
set Select sort method (for multi-drop): to Specify below
and insert there the needed header ( for me its "Envelope-to" )

hope this helps

jochen

[Monte Milanuk]

Question for you:  Where exactly is the setting for the pop3 server?   I've been thru the config several times, and I've looked around in the manual, but I must missing something really obvious.  I found the settings for the ISP's smtp server, and the pop3 username and password, but not where to specify the pop3 server.  What am I overlooking here?

TIA,

Monte

[Monte Milanuk]

Ummm... disregard part of the earlier message.  I think I have it figured out.  I guess I am supposed to choose ETRN and then specify the ISP's pop3 server as the 'secondary mail server'.

Next question is:  how do I set up e-smith to deal w/ a pop3-authenticate-before-smtp ISP like Yahoo!

Normally I set an option like:

postconnect "/usr/sbin/sendmail -q"

as the last line of the user's .fetchmailrc

Which user does the .fetchmailrc belong to (root?) and is the command still valid?

Thanks,

Monte