Topic: Multidrop mail collecting

[Klas]

(First of all, thanks Charlie for your help with my bootdisk dilemma. Your advice gave me a place to look for the problem. Now im all up and running.)

Next problem...

My config:
Small company (5 workstations @192.168.0.1--5)
e-smith @192.168.0.253
I have a dialup connection thru a ISDN-router with dial-on-demand. @192.168.0.254
One dial-in PPP-connection (in router) @192.168.1.1
A domainname for email. All mail to one single mailbox at ISP.

I would like to use e-smith to split the mail into the mailboxes for the user accounts. I guess its Multi-drop i should use? Example: klas.ostman@ into mailbox for user klas.

I want all mail not having a correct recipient (mailinglists...) to be delivered to one specific account.

I guess this is quite easy to do already, but i cant find any scheduling option anywhere in the admin-menu. Is there a fixed collecting interval?

I want mail to be collected from ISP at regular intervals (30min--1h), except non office hours to keep cost down. Even better would be collecting at specified times (8am, 9am, 10am...)

How do i manage this. Do i add an entry in cron? I that case, what? Fetchmail?

Klas

[Klas]

Hi again,

I solved the problem,

I modified crontab to just collect mail at the times i want it to. Its working perfectly now. But in version 4...is there a way to to this thru the admin pages? Since im doing settings straight in the config files im afraid that if im doing any admin stuff things will be overwritten.

/Klas

[Charlie Brady]

Klas wrote:

> I modified crontab to just collect mail at the times i want it
> to. Its working perfectly now. But in version 4...is there a
> way to to this thru the admin pages? Since im doing settings
> straight in the config files im afraid that if im doing any
> admin stuff things will be overwritten.

Yes, frequency of dialup and frequency of mail collection will be programmable in e-smith 4 - right down to never.

Yes, if you edit config files they will be overwritten some time in the future. Read the docs at http://www.e-smith.org/custom/ for instructions on customising your e-smith server/gateway.

Charlie