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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: smef@n on October 20, 2009, 03:54:53 PM

Title: Send Receive emails from external mail server
Post by: smef@n on October 20, 2009, 03:54:53 PM

Hi,

I have setup SME Server 7.4 in my office and have an issue with the emails. The setup of email on our office is such that the email IDs are created on web hosting provider's server (i.e. online and outside our office LAN) and the MX records are pointing too at the hosting provider's servers. We send receive the emails from each and every PC by specifying POP and SMTP address to the web hosting provider's server. As the emails are send receive by each employee directly hence I need to provide them with internet access. The company policy does not permits internet access to everyone.

Now I want to have SME Server configured such that it collects the emails from the web host's server (e.g. pop3:- pop.isp.com; SMTP: smtp.isp.com) and keep them to itself. As the employees log into the SME Server (configured as Domain Controller) they can retrieve their emails hence there is no need to provide the internet connectivity to the employees as they can have their emails collected from SME Server using LAN.

Please assist what should I do to achieve this. This has been achieved by MS Exchange already and I would like to stop the usage of that software by replacing it with SME Server.

Regards

Title: Re: Send Receive emails from external mail server
Post by: Stefano on October 20, 2009, 04:28:02 PM

smef@n:

yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install fetchmail

then search fetchmail in wiki and read the pages ;-)

Title: Re: Send Receive emails from external mail server
Post by: smef@n on October 20, 2009, 05:12:53 PM

hey, many thanks for the prompt response. i shall go through the documentation and update the post in case i encounter a hitch
 :P

Title: Re: Send Receive emails from external mail server
Post by: CharlieBrady on October 20, 2009, 05:53:06 PM

Quote from: Stefano on October 20, 2009, 04:28:02 PM

yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install fetchmail

fetchmail is not in the smecontribs repository, and anyway is installed already.

Title: Re: Send Receive emails from external mail server
Post by: Stefano on October 20, 2009, 06:25:43 PM

ops.. you are right.. my bad, it should be

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yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install smeserver-fetchmail

sorry :-)