On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 at 07:51, Rommel P. Feria wrote:
>Its members have mailboxes hosted at an external site for its external
>mail
I understand that there's a difference between your setup and mine. I just
thought I'd mention this. With my setup I get mail from a single catch-all
POP3 (I'm hoping they'll open up IMAP soon) account, and Fetchmail then
takes care of parsing the Delivered-To (or Received, or To/Cc) headers for
recipient information, passing the e-mail on to the local MTA which passes
the e-mail on to the local MDA which takes care of what has to be done,
either storing the e-mail in some Maildir or sending it out to another
address.
With your setup it seems each user has one POP3 account hosted externally.
Maintaining that fetchmailrc file will probably be a little bloody. I
haven't done anything like this, but off the top of my head I'm thinking
you could do something crazy like set up a small SQL database with
username : password mappings that's only readable by a particular
proxy-user. Then set up a web interface that knows the username:password
of this proxy user. Set the web interface up to allow users to change
their passwords, or to request for POP3-fetching services.
Alternatively you could do away with your local POP3 fetching altogether.
Just set up a local SMTP server to act as a relay for your clients, and
the DialDaemon or some alternative software to auto-dial when needed. Have
your users retrieve their mail direct from your external host, downloading
and deleting mail, saving the messages in their respective MUA's. When you
think about it this way, you could do away with your local SMTP server as
well. Have the users connect to the Internet at will, checking mail when
they want to. This should remove from you the burdens of password
maintenance, security, and guessing when you have to get mail.
Again alternatively there are probably some software out there that aside
from being web-based MUA's have the capability to call fetchmail based on
a user's settings to retrieve that user's POP3 mail from some other host.
My fuzzy memory reminds me of Obsidian that I stopped using a long time
ago, giving way to Horde IMP. You can check Freshmeat for the URL of
Obsidian, if it's still alive. :-)
Good luck! :)
--> Jijo :-)
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