Is this possible?

[Schoolie]

The short: I do not want to use Scalix to receive my mail. The main purpose for Scalix is to be able to share my calendar, do group scheduling, etc.

Can I setup Scalix with my e-mail account, Schoolie@domain.com and also in Outlook configure a POP account with the same e-mail address Schoolie@domain.com?

The long:
I have an external mail server which I normally POP down using Outlook. I setup Scalix and at first had an issue because I did not realize that I could not use another account to default my e-mail being sent and received from, beside Scalix (I set Scalix to my internal domain name and it would always want to send from that domain instead of my true external domain... even when I would tell Outlook to use my other POP account as the default account). So I had to reconfigure Scalix and gave it my external domain (email) name. This allowed me to send e-mails and it would say the correct e-mail address.

The problem occurs when I try to create a POP account in Outlook to receive my external e-mails. I create the POP account as usual, but when I attempt to send/receive I get an error in Outlook, something to the effect of "This operation can not be completed".

I'm sorry for the complication, I tried me best at explaining the situation. If you need more info, please let me know!

[mephisto]

You can't do that. You can't have another account configured in you Outlook profile besides Scalix. I would use fetchmail to get the pop3 mails into Scalix.

[Schoolie]

Thank you for your reply. I will take a look at fetch mail.

[Schoolie]

Can you point me to a document that explains how to use fetch mail and Scalix?

Thanks.

[carloscs]

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# Configuration file for fetchmail

set daemon 300
set syslog
set bouncemail
set postmaster "postmaster@mycompany.com"

defaults
        antispam 501
        fetchall
        pass8bits
        smtphost scalix-server.mycompany.com

poll pop3server.mycompany.com with proto POP3 timeout 15
        user myuser there with password pass is myuser@mycompany.com here
        user otheruser there with password other is otheruser@mycompany.com here


Use "man fetchmail to know the possible options.

Start the fetchmails service and ensure that it uses this file (usually /etc/fetchmailrc).

Regards