Topic: e-mail options?

[Trampas Stern]

I have just installed my e-smith box and am loving it. The only problem I have now is email. The problem is I currently have three email servers I check on a regular basis. I would like to have the e-smith box download the email from these servers and put them into my personal account. For example I would like to have me@nc.rr.com and meto@somedomain.com get checked and downloaded put at me@my_esmith.com. Then all I would have to do in M$ outlook is check one email which would be an IMAP such that it would work on multiple computers at the same time.

I am fairly new to Linux and assume this is possible using the mulitple drop option. Which leads to the next question. The multiple drop option will parse email to find who it goes to? I have a domain name set up on freeservers.com  which forwards everything sent to my domain name to one ISP account. So would the multiple drop allow me to send email to bob@mydomain.com and ralf@mydomain.com which then is forwarded to myid@myisp.com and then have the e-smith check the isp account parse it the back end send the emails to bob@mye-smith.com and ralf@mye-smith.com?

Thanks

[stephen noble]

multidrop will loose some email headers but you can mostly get around this using procmail

http://www.dungog.net/sme/howto/procmail.html

regards
stephen noble
www.dungog.net/sme

[Brad Jennings]

Well, I'm fairly new to this e-smith stuff also, but I needed a way to get the old emails from our old server onto the new e-smith server.  Its been kinda teadious, but I really like what I can do and how easily I can do it on e-smith.  Take a look at http://e-smith.dyndns.org/.  I installed this onto our server and it works great.  It installs a "Mails Users" menu on the main server manager page.  Be sure to read the documentation on the site.  I hope this is what you need.