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Title: email configuration problem
Post by: dale on April 23, 2002, 03:57:31 AM

e-smith enthusiasts,
   I am trying to figure out how to retreive email from a public pop account based on private e-smith account.  Thus, if a user logs into serv.name.home/webmail as user:mom passwd:boss, she will see new email that was fetched from mail.myisp.com using username/password mom/boss.  Is this possible?  I am running e-smith server as a standalone server behind a firewall on a home network.  From what I gather reading the user guide, e-smith expects to retreive mail from 1 pop account only or expects DNS MX records.  My broadband provider doesn't allow dynamic DNS and I can't justify business class service.  Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Thanks,

Dale

Title: Re: email configuration problem
Post by: trevorb on April 23, 2002, 12:08:29 PM

http://e-smith.dyndns.org/

Just grab the fetchmail parts and install.

There will be a Users Mails panel under Collaboration on the server-manager panel. Select Individual Mailbox, click create against your local mail address. If you only want to retrieve your pop mail from the server use 'get mails only' (I use read and flush because I leave it on my server), click next and put in the pop details and save.

Don't forget that you are supposed to set multidrop under E-mail retrieval settings (and set the timings you want).

Trevor B

dale wrote:
>
> e-smith enthusiasts,
>    I am trying to figure out how to retreive email from a
> public pop account based on private e-smith account.  Thus,
> if a user logs into serv.name.home/webmail as user:mom
> passwd:boss, she will see new email that was fetched from
> mail.myisp.com using username/password mom/boss.  Is this
> possible?  I am running e-smith server as a standalone server
> behind a firewall on a home network.  From what I gather
> reading the user guide, e-smith expects to retreive mail from
> 1 pop account only or expects DNS MX records.  My broadband
> provider doesn't allow dynamic DNS and I can't justify
> business class service.  Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dale