Topic: RETRIEVING MAIL VIA OUTLOOK

[simone486]

Hi
i'm triing to get my external pop mailbox function properly but i wasn't able to get anything..I'm searching for a good how to or for someone explain me how to configure sme to download mail from pop3 mailbox.
I have upgraded fetechmail and tried to configure but nothing..

[crazybob]

Are you looking to download for one account, or a number of accounts, or just trying to outlook to work with your external account?

What have you tried so far?

Please provide as much detail as possible. It can be better to have too much info than not enough.

If you are having trouble with only with  fetchmail, you should post the question in the contribs section.

Bob

[MSmith]

If you want SME to check one external POP account it must be configured for "multidrop".  This assumes you want to retrieve domain email that is all dumped into one mailbox and have SME sort it out, but it works just fine for one ordinary POP mailbox and one internal user.

If you want SME to check multiple POP accounts you can use the very excellent fetchmail contrib from here:

http://www.schirrms.net/sme/SMEFetchMail.php

Just for the record, if something in SME "doesn't work" there's most likely a misconfiguration, hardware error or network problem somewhere because SME "just works."  Doing things such as upgrading packages is almost certainly not going to help.

[simone486]

I'm a newbie of sme server
i'm trying to make outlook work with exteranl account with fetchmail
I'm not able to check where is the problem
I first not sure if sme server colud retrieve email and then how i have to configure outlook..
I read http://sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/index.html?frame=http%3A//sme.swerts-knudsen.dk/howtos/howto_9.htm
but nothing

How could i check if mail are in the server?
wich type of connection i should use??ssl ports?
sme connects with pop3 server in standard way?
I have to route connection to specific ports?
I have to specify mail directory in outlook's IMAP configuration ?

Sorry
I'm very desperate...i've spent many night to make this working...

[crazybob]

Fetchmail will work, but is not necessary if you are retreiving only one external email.
To see if SME is getting your email, enable webmail on the server, and log in to your webmail acount.

The fetchmail program you are refering to is for SME 6.0 and 6.01 You should use the one Ray Mitchel refers to.

You will need to set your email client to use ssl. Pop3 is the standard ssl port, and smtp is port 465. You will need to set that port manualy, and do it after you place the tick in the ssl box, otherwise it will change back to 25 and you will have to set it again.

SME will connect to your pop3 account in the normal way if you have entered you account information correctly.

You should not have to route any ports. Are you using SME with a router?

I am not shure about IMAP. I only play with POP3

[simone486]

I'll face with multiple external mail..i tried with only one for now..
Webmail nothing to see..

>The fetchmail program you are refering to is for SME 6.0 and 6.01 You should use the one Ray Mitchel refers to.

He referred
SME FetchMail
Type How To
Version 1.0.7
Tested on SME 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.5RC1 and 7.0rc1

I'm using ETRN with secondary email server pointing to pop.tiscali.it is it correct? (i've tried almost every configuration..)

[CharlieBrady]

i'm triing to get my external pop mailbox function properly but i wasn't able to get anything..I'm searching for a good how to or for someone explain me how to configure sme to download mail from pop3 mailbox.
I have upgraded fetechmail and tried to configure but nothing..

The subject of this thread refers to "via outlook". If you wish to retreive mail using outlook, you just configure outlook to fetch the mail directly from the ISP mailbox. fetchmail has nothing to do with it. SME server acts just as a router in this case.

When you say "i wasn't able to get anything" what do you mean? What did you do, and what did you see as a result?