[KLUG Members] Sendmail as POP3?

[bill]

Progress!!  Details below.

"Robert G. Brown" wrote:

> 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.

Tried to install ipop, couldn't find it anywhere.  Turns out it was already installed.  Man, I
hate the GnomeRPM.

> >> 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! :)

Wouldn't that be two hensway?

> 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.

> 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.

Actually, it was already installed, I had to enable it as a service (calls itself ipop3),
reboot, and, 'hey!' it works.

Which leads to my next questions:  Fetchmail isn't listed as a service I can "enable on
boot."  So, how can I get it to fire on boot?

Being as it has it's own config file that has, apparently, been done correctly, could I just

/usr/bin/fetchmail

if I wanted to start it from the command line?

Lastly, the default "interval" is zero (0).  Does that mean it never runs?  If seconds, then
setting it to 300 would poll the external POP3 servers every five minutes, for example.

kind regards,

bill