Hello,
I figured it would be best to describe what I want to do first, then ask my
question.
I would like to set up a number of email account I have to forward all
emails to one email account (gmail). That way I can check all my mail in
one place (and search and store it). For most of the accounts I have this
is no problem. They have settings to allow forwarding to other email
accounts. I have one account though that is a problem. It is an IMAP
account, but doesn't provide a way to forward all incoming mail. I have a
linux box that is always up, and I figured that I could use fetchmail to
collect this mail (running in daemon mode). I would than like to send this
mail out through a SMTP server (not a MTA on the local linux box). Reading
through the manual, I think I can set up this using --smtpname
<user(_at_)domain>
to forward the email to an external SMTP server. The SMTP server I will be
using requires authentication. It looks like fetchmail supports this with
'esmtpname' and 'esmtppassword'. (What is the difference here between ESMTP
and SMTP? Am I right in figuring I can use this to do authentication to an
SMTP server?) In addition the SMTP server I will be using supports TLS
encryption for the SMTP connection (and hints in the future they may require
it). Does fetchmail support TLS connections to remote SMTP server?
Sean