On 4/14/05, Aravind gv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If iam fetching mail using fetchmail and directly forwarding it to > internel Exchange Server.
> According to your soln i need to have two internel mailserver ie one > Linux and another Exchange right. you already have the exchange server. what you wanted was to do the antivirus and spam scanning. generally, you'll have a linux box, fetchmail is running on that box. when the mail is received, it is forwarded to a local user (you specify that in your .fetchmailrc user 'methere' there with password 'mypass' is 'mehere' [more parameters] this assumes that your email address at the external server is methere and your login on the fetchmail box is mehere and your POP3 password at the external server is mypass. when you run fetchmail, mail there is retrieved and then delivered to you here. you still need to do the spam and virus scanning. so you configure your fetchmail box to have an SMTP server that will do the scanning for you. in another thread there is a discussion of this. see the thread on "forwarding SMTP traffic" and look for the post by jimmy lim. the one with a lot of plus signs. please don't send private emails if you're just asking for technical help (if it's private discussion, then send it in private email, sure). it dilutes the usefulness of the mailing list. oh, i remember now why you sent private email, you're in digest mode and your email address was in the To: line. that's one more reason to go into non-digest mode. because you receive emails in closer to realtime. in digest mode, well, if your question is urgent, it's going to be an average of 12 hours before you get your answer. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" "SELinux can do that sort of thing quite easily. Well, as easily as SELinux does anything, I guess..." -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
