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Hi all,

I have a domain for which my provider provides a catch-all mailbox - the same provider also blocks port 25 on my server so I'm obliged to use this mailbox. I want to get this mail, using fetchmail or getmail, and distribute it among my scalix accounts. All mail not matched should go to my catch-all box. But I can't get it to work properly.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants to do this but Google can't find me anything useful, and believe me I've looked. The guy who made fetchmail seems to hate multidrop and writing proper documentation; getmail I did get working, but with a perl script I found somewhere (smtp.pl) which causes any mail with multiple recipients to loop like crazy.
I'm running Scalix on a OpenSuse 10.1 server; I'd prefer to use fetchmail because it's a standard component and so will get automatic updates and stuff.

Any and all help would be appreciated.

P.S.
I'd love being able to do "apt-get install scalix-11" on my Ubuntu server... I don't really like Suse that much... The GUI stuff confuses me more than .conf files.

Hi Roger,

take a look at http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?ti ... /Fetchmail for some basic info I wrote together on fetchmail a while back. (I know it's not too detailed, and doesn't include extended netrc syntax)

What you probably want to do is just deliver all email by SMTP to omsmtpd on <ip_addr>:25 and set up the catch-all on the Scalix side, search the forums for more info on how to do that, it's been discussed before.