[KLUG Members] Sendmail as POP3?

[Robert G. Brown]

Bill Hollett Wrote:
>"Robert G. Brown" wrote:
>
>> 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, we didn't get to that one. You ought to install a pop3 server as well. One
that ships as part of RH is called ipop3d. You will need to install xinetd if
you don't already have it installed.

>> Sendmail and fetchmail coexistest very nicely on the same machine, or you can
>> run fetchmail on a different host and send the collected mail to the LAN mail
>> server. Configuration is pretty straightforward, and it all ships with several
>> popular distributions.
>Well, I found a gui configuration program called fetchmailconf and installed it.
>(So how long is an "interval"? Seconds? minutes? Is this like a henway?)  
I seem to recall it is very similar, but not quite identical...
to TWO henways! :)

I think it defaults to seconds, but part of the configuration may permit you
to specify the units in whuch the time internal is expressed.

>I've configured it to "fetch" mail from a server, and running it in debug mode it says it
>found and retrieved my test message.  BUT, I can't access the machine via POP3 from
>another (local) machine.  I.e., the message is on the fetchmail local machine, but
>when I try to "get" that mail from another machine (pointing the program to the
>fetchmail box) , it just times out.
Yes, install the pop3 server.

>Is there a service I need to enable on the fetchmail box?
No, you want to enable/install the POP3 server on the same host as the one one which
sendmail does local delivery.

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