Collecting mail from a POP3 source...

Yazmon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 84

Gday,

I have a POP3 mail source that I would like to collection mail from, and store it in a database on my local machine, which would allow other clients to collect the mail from, via some protocol (POP3?).

Ive looked at sendmail, but AFAIK that is a MTA which does not poll a POP3 source.

Any ideas?

virtual.adept · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 12:54 pm Post subject:

You should use fetchmail to collect your mail, then deliver it to sendmail, qmail or whatever you use. To give other users the possibility to get their mails you need a pop-server (i think there is one called qpopper, but i'm not really shure).
I'd recommend qmail rather than sendmail, i found it's way easier to understand than sendmail.
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Yazmon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 84

Thanks,

Hmm the homepage forwards you to a (seemingly) random site. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/fetchmail/

dsegel · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 127

I do this via fetchmail and courier-pop3. Fetchmail gets the mail from an ISP via POP3 and delivers it to a mailbox on the local machine. Then I can log into the local machine using Eudora and pick up the mail.

I have procmail in between, but it's basically as I've described. Just tell the POP server that the mail root is whatever directory you have fetchmail or procmail putting the mail into.

Yazmon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 84

Sounds like a plan.

Is there new homepager for the project, as configuring the software with a manual could be a little tricky...

max_colby · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 9:30 am Post subject:

You may want to try getmail, it's a fetchmail replacement and is very easy to configure.

PowerFactor · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 4:32 pm Post subject: