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Re: [cobalt-users] Qube POP collection from two places



At 20:28 09/06/03 +0200, you wrote:

steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello all,
Does anyone know if its possible to set up a Qube to collect mail by POP from more than one address please? I can only see one place to set it up in the GUI, but I'm quite happy to tinker through Telnet. Our ISP has just decided to authenticate users by POP before SMTP, and we still need POP to collect mail from our own server. (Previously they were only allowing users connecting through their dial up service to use their smtp servers, but the change is to allow users connecting via other networks to send email through their server).
Thanks,
Steve

The Qube uses fetchmail to retrieve remote mail. The config file for this is located in /etc/fetchmail and is named multidrop:localdomain You can add additional mailboxes to the file there. Fetchmail also supports a .fetchmailrc file in a users local home directory, to enable seperate drop boxes for seperate users. Same file format there;

e.g.
pico .fetchmailrc

poll pop.microsoft.com
        user "bill"
        pass "w00t"
        is admin                (local user for delivery)
        nokeep                   (remove after pop)
         fetchall                (get all msgs avery time)
        no ssl

additional servers are just appended to the text file on and on.
If you want to disable a server temporary, change the first line from poll servername to skip servername.

Bob.

Thanks Bob, that's just what i needed :)