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[fetchmail]Re: Brain breaking problem - Long - Conceptual

2001-09-22 15:39:38
Jerry Rocteur writes:


I have a family domain registered with Namezero. rocteur.com
With Namezero you cannot download individual addresses, you either forward them or download the lot
I have a Linux (SuSE 7.0) box connected to the Internet via Cable modem
I'd like to run a program that connects to my Namezero account, then see who the mail is sent to and forwards the email to the user account on Unix My family can then use my Linux machine as a pop server and download their emails to their workstations Here is how it hangs together, my domain name is rocteur.com. With namezero, if you don't forward emails to another email address all non forwarded mails are kept on Namezero's pop server in rocteur.com's account. I connect to Namezero using rocteur.com's account and password, all emails to *(_at_)rocteur(_dot_)com are downloaded to my system. I would like a program to run as an annonymous user, connect to Namezero with rocteur.com's email account, as each mail is downloaded, it see's who at rocteur.com it is addressed to and forwards it via sendmail to the relevant UNIX account.. Then using Eudora or another email client, my family can connect to my Unix machine and download their mails.. That's it, if fetchmail is the answer please give me a hint for the setup.. If not do you have an idea.
Yes, you want fetchmail. Fetchmail will collect all of your messages and, in "multidrop" mode, examine each one and forward it to the right place - assuming Namezero include this information properly when they store the information for you (it would be easy, if it wasn't for Bcc: fields and mailing lists that conceal email addresses in the message headers). However, you also need a local mail server on the Linux box - fetchmail doesn't deal with sorting the messages at all, nor with providing a POP3 server. But you can get these easily enough. The one I use (courier) allows me to have "virtual" accounts, so that not all my users need to have a real login on the mailserver box, provides SMTP, POP3, IMAP and even webmail mail protocols - but you need to choose one that is right for you.
This is almost exactly what I do on my server.
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Bill Michell
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