Topic: EMAIL - POP Problem

[Lars]

Hi!

I have just installed the SME-Server 5.6. All works great but E-mail retrieval is not really possible.

I read the article about mail retrieval in this forum, but I can't believe that there is not a better or more easy solution.

The problem:
Domain: www.xxxx.com
POP3: pop3.xxxx.com
Hostet on ISP abcd... with no separate IP for the xxxx.com-Domain! <---

I have to configure SME with the name xxxx.com-Domainname to deliver internal Mails correctly. Internal Mails work fine with this config.

And now the problem. If I want to acces the external Domain with the pop3-Mailbox it does't work.

How can I tell SME to collect the mails from the external domain??????

My workaround:
Forwarding all Mails to xxxx.com to yyyy.com.
But: Not all of my Domains can forward to another mailbox...or I do not have access to the ISP-config-section

I hope there is an easy solution, telling SME access pop3.xxxx.com extern.

Lars

[Kelvin]

Hi Lars,

Are you trying to :
a) collect POP3 mails from multiple mailboxes hosted at the ISP

or

b) are all your mails at the ISP going to a single mailbox for collection and local distribution ?

If (b), SME has a mechanism called multi-drop mail to do just that however, the SME server must have the same domain name (either as the primary domain or as a virtual domain) as the mails you are trying to distribute locally.

If (a), search the forum for Vincent Filali and download then install his multi-pop fetchmail generator. It allows you to collect POP3 mail from up to 25 (or is it 50?) POP3 mailboxes per user ! This does not require your SME to have the same domain name.

If neither (a) or (b), post more info.

Kelvin

[del]

Hi Lars,
The Vincent Filali rpm can be found at http://lordsfam.net/downloads/production/sme-fetchmail
I installed this and it works great.
Hope this helps.
Del

[Lars]

Hi Kevin, hi del!

So fast answers!!!!

I will try to get a solution with your posts. In any case I will write a feedback. This is (my) only problem with this server and I hope we can fix the problem...

more coming soon...

Lars

[Lars]

Hi!

It seems, the problem is solved...

I configured the fetchmail script in multi-drop-mode, without using the internal SME mail retrieval function. (All fields are empty in my configuration...)

I only configue one multi-drop-mailbox and every user gets an expression there... so the local-user "a" gets mail from the external pop3-mailbox a@xxx.com.
The local-domainname is yyy.com.

Now all works fine and I can use all features from this great server-software.

Many thanks to all!

Lars