[KLUG Members] Sendmail as POP3?
Adam Williams
members@kalamazoolinux.org
Mon, 6 Jan 2003 16:50:01 -0500 (EST)
>> What I beleive you want to use is a package called FETCHMAIL. It does
>> EXACTLY what you're looking for, and more, too!
>So fetchmail will get the mail from a POP3 server and act as a POP3 server
>internally, too?
No, it is no a POP3 server. It delivers to message(s) to something,
usually sendmail, which puts them in an inbox. You should have the UW
IMAP/POP3 server RPM lying about, it comes with RH7.x/8.0
>Is there a service I need to enable on the fetchmail box?
(Remote POP Box)<---->Fethcmail<--->Local Sendmail<----
---->Local Mail Box<---IMAP/POP server (UW)<--->Client.
Fetchmail real purpose is to abstract the remote mail box(es) so you can
pretend the mail got delivered straight to your friendly server.