On Monday 10 November 2003 23:07, Eric Walstad wrote: > Greetings kind debianites, > > I'm in the process of learning MTA admin. My head is about to explode. > > I'm wanting to setup a Debian box that'll suck down pop email from an > ISP for a few local users and then serve those email up via pop3 or > imap on the LAN. Following some advice I received on this list, I > installed fetchmail, courier-imap, courier-pop and exim4. I then found > that exim4 and courier like different mailbox formats.
These work well together - I have done it. Exim4 DOES have the ability to deliver to to Maildirs - thats what I do. I can't tell you how to edit the complicated new way of dealing with the configuration - I gave up an made one big config file. However this is the transport that delivers to the maildir from my config local_delivery: driver = appendfile directory = /home/${lc:$local_part}/Maildir envelope_to_add group = mail maildir_format message_prefix = "" mode = 0660 no_mode_fail_narrower return_path_add Note it also appears that fetchmail is delivering the e-mail as though it to local host. You can make it appear to go to a more reasonable address using smtp address (but be careful you need to tell exim4 that it is a local domain). Here is my /etc/fetchmailrc file (passwords removed - note also that normal mail for me comes directly and not via that route, so the timings (1 hour and 4 hours) are very slow compared to normal) # $Id: fetchmailrc,v 1.1 2002/11/11 19:16:22 alan Exp $ # Created by AKC 14th July 2000 set daemon 3600 set syslog # poll mail.tesco.net no dns proto POP3 tracepolls aka tesco.net user "alan.chandler" password "x" forcecr is alan smtpaddress chandlerfamily.org.uk user "Sarah.Chandler" password "x" forcecr is sarah fetchall smtpaddress chandlerfamily.org.uk # poll pop3.blueyonder.co.uk no dns proto POP3 tracepolls interval 4 aka blueyonder.co.uk localdomains chandlerfamily.org.uk libdebate.org user "ac003a3222" password "" forcecr is * fetchall smtpaddress chandlerfamily.org.uk user "ac003a3222_2" password "x" forcecr is sarah fetchall smtpaddress chandlerfamily.org.uk user "ac003a3222_5" password "x" forcecr is alan fetchall smtpaddress chandlerfamily.org.uk -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]