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Title: feeding mail from ISP pops, help please
Post by: Stuart MacGregor on July 09, 2002, 04:55:56 AM

I have set up a small family LAN with e-smith as gateway and firewall.  I would like to feed my ISP based pop mail boxes (one for each account) to the e-smith server, to have local storage and central always on access to the mail.

I have no interest in having a domain etc. so I have given an arbitrary (not registered) domain name to the server.  If I were to use the isp domain ntlworld.com as some suggest, the mail fetch might be easier, but it would hide pop.ntlworld.com, news.ntlworld.com and other ntl users e-mail from my system.

This cannot be a new requirement - is there some simple way of persuading my xyz.whatever domain server to feed the local mail bag for each local account from the corresponding pop.ntlworld.com mail boxes?

I expect I could get stuck in to the crontab, fetchmail, perl whatever stuff in e-smith, but I am not a comms hobyist, just a simple user - help!

Title: Re: feeding mail from ISP pops, help please
Post by: Trevor B on July 09, 2002, 03:14:54 PM

See http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=4090.msg14159#msg14159

Stuart MacGregor wrote:
>
> I have set up a small family LAN with e-smith as gateway and
> firewall.  I would like to feed my ISP based pop mail boxes
> (one for each account) to the e-smith server, to have local
> storage and central always on access to the mail.
>
> I have no interest in having a domain etc. so I have given an
> arbitrary (not registered) domain name to the server.  If I
> were to use the isp domain ntlworld.com as some suggest, the
> mail fetch might be easier, but it would hide
> pop.ntlworld.com, news.ntlworld.com and other ntl users
> e-mail from my system.
>
> This cannot be a new requirement - is there some simple way
> of persuading my xyz.whatever domain server to feed the local
> mail bag for each local account from the corresponding
> pop.ntlworld.com mail boxes?
>
> I expect I could get stuck in to the crontab, fetchmail, perl
> whatever stuff in e-smith, but I am not a comms hobyist, just
> a simple user - help!