POP3 Connector

[Johiii]

Hello
Is there any POP3 Connector for Scalix? If Yes, were and how does i aktivate/install it?

Thank You

[florian]

pop3 is enabled and running by default. just put your scalix server name in as a pop server and use your normal scalix username and password.

cheers,
Florian.

[Johiii]

pop3 is enabled and running by default. just put your scalix server name in as a pop server and use your normal scalix username and password.

sorry it is my first time that i use something like a Pop3 Connecter. where does i have to fill in my scalix-servername?

thank you for your help

[florian]

well, that depends on what client you're using... it should ask you for the server hostname.

Florian.

[Johiii]

well that means i have to go to www.gmx.net and fill the "serverhostname" in there?

well i think i don't understand what you are meaning ...

a Pop3 connector gets the e-mails from an E-Mailclient (like GMX) or isnt that correct?

i think im a little bit to stupid to make this connecter T_T

[chris]

Don't worry Johiii,

what is your objective? Are you trying to get your gmx mail into scalix? Are you trying to get your scalix mail into an email program like thunderbird or outlook?

If you can tell us what you're trying to accomplish, I'm certain we can help you.

Chris

[Johiii]

what is your objective? Are you trying to get your gmx mail into scalix?

i want to receive my e-mails from an pop3 server on Scalix (thats what pop3 connecter are for or?)

Are you trying to get your scalix mail into an email program like thunderbird or outlook?

this is allready working (outlook) ... its the first time that i use linux ... but windows is easy hehe

Thank you
with friendly greez
Johiii

[chris]

Hi Johiii,

hope you haven't given up yet.

Why don't you take a look at http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?ti ... /Fetchmail - that should be just what you need to get that working.

If anything's unclear, let me know.

Cheers,

Chris

[Johiii]

I love you

thats 100%correctly what i need

Thank you very very much

yust one more problem left, local aliases
but that theme is in an other Thread

Thank you very very much

Johiii

[florian]

Ha!

That's why we hired him. Please all welcome chris@Scalix!

Cheers,
Florian.

[chris]

I love you :oops:

thats 100%correctly what i need

Thank you very very much

yust one more problem left, local aliases
but that theme is in an other Thread

Thank you very very much

Johiii

Really glad to hear that was a help!

Chris

[rolandtignor]

I'm glad there's some howto's but
where do you put your pop3 password from your isp in the following?
fetchmail -p pop3 -S yourserver.localdomain.com --smtpname your.name@localdomain.com -u youruser@provider.com popserver.provider.com

What is the --smtpname for? local or isp?
How do I find out what my scalix incoming and outgoing mail server names are?
Thanks

[chris]

I'm glad there's some howto's but
where do you put your pop3 password from your isp in the following?

Sorry for the oversight. I've added a section on passwords to the howto.

fetchmail -p pop3 -S yourserver.localdomain.com --smtpname your.name@localdomain.com -u youruser@provider.com popserver.provider.com
What is the --smtpname for? local or isp?

the --smtpname is the rfc822 email address on your Scalix server to which you would like the email sent. The ISP just needs a user and password and give you the contents of that user's mailbox, regardless of the destination addresses of the emails. (This is important if you have local aliases at your isp, where for example salesteam@domain may be aliased to the sales@domain mailbox.)

I
How do I find out what my scalix incoming and outgoing mail server names are?
Thanks

I've just edited that bit of the howto to make it clearer - take another look and let me know if you get it.

Thanks,

Chris

[Johiii]

Chris
one more problem.
it doesn't work...
I edited this file : /etc/crontab
yust put this comando line in the file
0/1 * * * * "/usr/bin/fetchmail -p pop3 -S scalix.pore.at --smtpname sxadmin-scalix@pore.at -u gruftengel@gmx.at pop.gmx.net >/dev/null 2>&1"
wich means Cron is using this comandoline every minute
is there anything else to do?
like restart cron!?
i allready tryed it but if i use this command: cron restart
there always comes an error
bash: cron: command not found

and passwort doesn't work either
because: when i use this, there shouldn't be an passwort request either
fetchmail -p pop3 -S scalix.pore.at --smtpname sxadmin-scalix@pore.at -u gruftengel@gmx.at pop.gmx.net

the file is in /~/.netrc it is : "chmod 400"
and the text in it is:

machine pop.gmx.net
login Gruftengel@gmx.at
password try-it-it-is-wrong

[chris]

Hi Johiii,

you need to edit crontab using the command crontab -e - not just by hand.

At the beginnning you should have */1 not 0/1

If you did that, then change the end from >/dev/null 2>&1 to &>/var/log/cronlog

That way you can see the output of the command cron is running.

Does the command you posted work if you enter it as root?

Chris