If you install fetchmail on your system and configure it to collect your
pop3 mail..
it will by default hand your mail to postfix which will pass it to procmail
for local delivery..
I have been doing it that way for ages..
Here is an example .fetchmailrc
set postmaster "postmaster"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set daemon 1000
set logfile /var/log/mail/fetchmail
poll pop.xxx.xxx.com with proto POP3
user 'xxxxxxx' there with password 'xxxxxxxx' is 'franki' here
options fetchall
That will run fetchmail as a daemon and it will check for mail every 1000
seconds.
any mail it collects is handed to postfix. (which on my system uses
amavis-new,
Trend filescan for linux and Spamassassin to scan the mail for spam and
viri)
and then postfix hands the mail to procmail for local delivery. (which the
other
machines on your lan can use pop3 to collect.)
hope that helps..
regards
Franki
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JoeHill
Sent: Thursday, 17 July 2003 11:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Postfix and POP3
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:14:22 -0300
"Cody Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> Isn't that what pop is? It "holds" mail until you want to "download"
> it...oops...i guess i didn't mean to quote download...ah well.
No, I want to have Postfix retrieve the mail from my ISP's POP3 server,
then hold it on my server.
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Joehill
Registered Linux user #282046
Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net
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