Topic: mail Problem

[jms]

Hi there,

I've 2 mail accounts at my isp. Now I want that e-smith download them and put them into a user e-mail box which I can access with imap. Both mail accounts are stored in 1 pop mail box. Now I set the e-smith server to empty the pop mail box at my isp. When I send a message to both mail accounts only one of them is forward to the imap user mailbox.

help please

Thank you

[Orville Carter]

jms wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I've 2 mail accounts at my isp. Now I want that e-smith
> download them and put them into a user e-mail box which I can
> access with imap. Both mail accounts are stored in 1 pop mail
> box. Now I set the e-smith server to empty the pop mail box at
> my isp. When I send a message to both mail accounts only one of
> them is forward to the imap user mailbox.

I believe that is normal for e-smith. I have two email boxes at my isp (speakeasy.org).
I gave up trying to grab both email boxes onto e-smith. The isp requires seperate usernames and passwords for each box. It is not possible (as far as I know) to populate esmith email retrieval with more than one user name and password.

However, if you have a dedicated internet connection, and registered domain name, you can start your own mail system
and give each user a unique name & mail box. This what we did on our DSL service
at home. All members of my household (and a few neighbors) can send and receive
their own private email to anyone on the net.
My email shown (orvillec@speakeasy.org) is my isp mailbox. This is only used here to
avoid spam. I do have a another email box on my own domain, reserved for regular email.

Hope that helps. If you need any detail info email me directly.

OC

[jms]

Thanks for your reply

> The isp requires seperate usernames and passwords for each box

But my isp pop mailbox request only one username and password.

> if you have a dedicated internet connection

No, i have a dialup cable modem with dynamic dns. And I'm official not allowed to run servers at home.

[Grethus Bode]

It does work if you edit the /etc/fetchmail (or the template would be better)
behind the entry username is to *, make the username te name of the isp and the * in yourispusername=yourusername.
More about this is in the man fetchmail.
disable the entry localdomains if the e-mail has a different domain.

I'm trying to get 3 boxes but only 2 work, so it is not sure that it works.