Koozali.org: home of the SME Server

Obsolete Releases => SME 7.x Contribs => Topic started by: OzMoosis on September 26, 2006, 06:37:56 PM

Title: Fetchmail not fetching
Post by: OzMoosis on September 26, 2006, 06:37:56 PM

Hi there,

yes, another SME Newbie! I'm trying to get SME 7.0 to retrieve mail from a catchall-account on an external mail server and redistribute to the appropriate users on my SME-server. I have installed the fetchmail contrib from www.schirrms.net. But how do I configure SME to fetch? I have the IP-address of the external server, the username and password for the catchall-account but where do I fill them in? And what other options do I have to select: e-mail retrieval mode, etc? I've tried lot's of combinations but nothing works so far.

I have run fetchmail from a terminal and that worked fine (fetchmail -a -k -u name server) but getting it to work automatically has me stumped...

Thanks in advance

Title: Fetchmail not fetching
Post by: jonroberts on September 27, 2006, 10:55:37 AM

You don't actually need the contrib for this.  The SME standard will do it for a single external POP account.  The contribs help if you have more than one account to collect from.

In Server-Manager, go to the e-mail settings & choose 'change email reception settings'.  Set retrieval mode to Multi-Drop & then complete the Multidrop settings.

Set Secondary Mail Server to the name of your external POP server & set the Pop User Name & Password.  Configure how often you want to check for mail from the options given & away you go.

If you ever want to force an e-mail collection, log in to the console & enter the command /etc/startmail - this will immediately force an email collection.

Title: Fetchmail not fetching
Post by: OzMoosis on September 27, 2006, 12:31:33 PM

Thanks Jon,

those settings worked.

Oz