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Kezza
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 Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 4:30 am Post subject: qmail with a dialup ISP? |
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I'm hoping to get fetchmail + qmail + pine/mutt setup so that I can pretty much emulate in a shell what KMail does under KDE - I want to be able to grab mail from my ISP's POP3 server, and I also want to be able to send email to my ISP's SMTP server with appropriate user + host masquerading.
My machine's hostname is shire and I logon as bilbo (bilbo@shire). Naturally my email address at my ISP is very different; for discussion's sake let's assume my email address is johndoe@isp.com
Fetchmail is setup, polling the POP3 server and passing any mail to qmail.
Qmail is installed and the config run, links setup, svscan started. However I have no idea what it does with the mail it receives from fetchmail. The inbox of pine/mutt remain empty. I'm unsure whether this is due to qmail sending the mail to some unknown folder or whether qmail doesn't know where to put mail addressed to johndoe@isp.com
I can send mail with pine (with user-domain field set appropriately in .pinerc). But all email is send From: bilbo@isp.com
I'm hoping to get all this setup so that I can send all email as johndoe@isp.com and all email send to johndoe@isp.com is delivered to bilbo@shire
I'm appreciate any pointers. |
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Larde
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Joined: 07 Jun 2002
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Location: Duesseldorf, Germany
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| Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 6:52 am Post subject: |
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I also have a couple of pop3 accounts that I still poll with fetchmail and stuff it in my local qmail. I think, your setup in your .fetchmailrc should be similar to: | Code: | poll pop.isp.com with protocol POP3, with options uidl
user "johndoe@isp.com" there with password "secret" is bilbo@shire here
with options nokeep mimedecode pass8bits |
Well, this is how I use it, and "on my machine it works". 
I have no idea how to set up pine for a different "From:" though.
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mark_lagace
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Joined: 19 Nov 2002
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 7:24 pm Post subject: qmail |
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| Quote: | | The inbox of pine/mutt remain empty |
Are you certain you have a mailbox? Check in bilbo's home directory for a .maildir directory (assuming you've gone with the gentoo defaults). It should be a folder with rwx permissions for bilbo and no-one else (e.g. 0700 permission). Within .maildir should be three folders, cur, new, and tmp (also with the same permissions).
Check if your mail ends up in new folder - if it does, then you've got a config problem with pine and/or mutt. Tell them where to find your maildir - if you use mutt, put this in your muttrc file:
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set mbox_type=Maildir
set folder=~/.maildir
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| Quote: | | I'm unsure whether this is due to qmail sending the mail to some unknown folder or whether qmail doesn't know where to put mail addressed to johndoe@isp.com |
Check your qmail logs - you might get a better idea of what is happening. They are usually stored in /var/log/qmail-send and /var/log/qmail-smtpd. It's the latter that you want to check out. |
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