[aclug-L] Re: Mail server and proxy account at Southwind.

[Ryan Claycamp <claycamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The store and forward solution wouldn't work for us, but I got a
fetchmail/procmail solution working.  Root uses fetchmail, through cron,
to pull all our mail from Southwind.  Fetchmail then sends the mail
through procmail, which sends each message to the appropriate local
mailbox.  I used cron so I can have the server check for mail less often
than during business hours.  If people are interested, I can post the
fetchmail and procmail configure files.

Ryan

Jonathan Hall wrote:
> 
> Your best sollution, finances allowing, would be to get an
> SMTP-store-and-forward account from SouthWind.  Any mail sent to your
> dowmain would be stored at SouthWind until your computer is online, at
> which time the mail would be delivered to you for distribution.  This
> requires very little configuration on your end, and should be very easy to
> administer--probably easier than a POP3/fetchmail solution.
> 
> On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Ryan Claycamp wrote:
> 
> > My company will soon be getting a proxy account at Southwind since we
> > now have a Linux server at work acting as a gateway.  Since we own the
> > domain name guernseyaviation.com, all mail addressed to
> > guernseyaviation.com will come to the proxy account, and it will be up
> > to me to distribute it internally.  I already have a mail server working
> > and can mail to each other in the office.  I understand I should use
> > fetchmail to pull the mail and probably procmail to distribute it.  Is
> > this the way to do it, and how would a person go about configuring the
> > two programs?  Are those the only two things to setup or does more need
> > to be done to get our e-mail service setup under the proxy account.
> >
> > Ryan Claycamp
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> > Visit the Guernsey Aviation web page - http://www.guernseyaviation.com/
> >
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