Topic: Multiple POP3 pickups?

[Jason Judge]

Hi,

I need to pick up e-mails from a number of different pop3 accounts but can only find a setting in E-smith for one. Can more than one be set up?

Jason

[Dan Brown]

By default, the e-smith manager doesn't have a way of configuring this (e-smith developers, if you're listening, this seems to be a very commonly-requested addition to the system).  There is a third-party RPM I've seen floating around which would add this functionality, though.  Or, you could read up on fetchmail, which is included with e-smith.

[Jason Judge]

Thanks - I'll see if I can find that RPM and post a link back here.

I'm finding that the limitations imposed by the standard install are making E-smith _just_ the wrong side of being very useful out of the box. It's 99% the way there, but silly little restrictions mean that I cannot roll it out as the general e-mail gateway/router/proxy to my clients that I had hoped to be able to do.

I think a fair bit of customisation is going to be needed (allow read-only file shares, multiple pop3 pickup accounts, better access to system logs, e-mail archiving, allow additional partitions on the hard disk, etc.), but it would be great to wait a few weeks and see what E-smith 5 gives us.

Regards,

Jason Judge

[Patrick Basile]

Jason,

Here are some of your answers:

Jason Judge wrote:
>
> Thanks - I'll see if I can find that RPM and post a link back
> here.

Here's the link to at least one RPM for collecting multiple POP3 email accounts.

http://www.e-smith.org/contrib/rpm-index/RPM-e-smith-multipop-0.1-1.noarch.html

> I'm finding that the limitations imposed by the standard
> install are making E-smith _just_ the wrong side of being
> very useful out of the box. It's 99% the way there, but silly
> little restrictions mean that I cannot roll it out as the
> general e-mail gateway/router/proxy to my clients that I had
> hoped to be able to do.

Although I am an experienced Windoze user (a MCSE actually) I'm a new e-smith user, and a Linux newbie.  I've been using e-smith for about 2 weeks now, and although I also had some problems - I have found almost all my answers right here on these phorums.

I think if you take a deep breath and proceed along - that you will find many folks have already implemented e-smith and have the answers to your questions.  Stay the course!

> I think a fair bit of customisation is going to be needed
> (allow read-only file shares, multiple pop3 pickup accounts,
> better access to system logs, e-mail archiving, allow
> additional partitions on the hard disk, etc.), but it would
> be great to wait a few weeks and see what E-smith 5 gives us.

Actually, you can create 'read-only' shares (ibays) with the default e-smith installation/setup - no special customization is needed.  Simply modify your ibay to allow Admin write access and Group read access.

I am also excited to see what SME V5 looks like, but v 4.1.2 CAN do quite a lot...in fact I just setup a fax server on e-smith this morning.  Pretty neat...and I won't have to shell out $100 to Symantec for WinFax!

Good luck!

Regards,
Patrick

[Jason Judge]

Patrick,

Thanks for the encouragement. Regardless of the restrictions, I am confident that this product will do everything I need since it does have a standard Linux under the bonnet (or hood - depending upon which side of the pond you are on).

I've just installed the multi-pop RPM - it slots in like a dream. Thanks to Stephen Noble.

I see the options now for setting an i-bay read-only to the group and writeable only to the administrator. I was ignoring the options with an asterisk since they are not compatible with Macintoshes (I will have a Mac on the network). Once I'd ignored the options the first time I'd seen them, I just became blind to them!

Just need to get my e-mail and proxy working now and I'm ready to install Hylafax!

Regards,

Jason Judge