External POP3 Accounts

[instabin]

How do I configure fetchmail to download mail from our pop3 accounts hosted on the internet to our scalix accounts

ex:

POP3 account scalix account
internet local
mail.ourdomain.com fedora.ourdomain.local
jdoe@ourdomain.com jdoe@ourdomain.com
password password

[ScalixSupport]

This has been covered a number of times in this forum. Please use the search feature and specify the word "fetchmail"

Cheers

Dave

[instabin]

I have searched the forum up and down. Google for fetchmail and tried some irc rooms.

What I want to do is have fetchmail run as a service so I dont have to login to run it.
It has to download email from multipule accounts and deliver them to the respective scalix users inbox.

How would i go about doing this?

[ScalixSupport]

Sorry if this seems glib but I just searched fetchmail on google and the first hit was:

http://fetchmail.berlios.de/

On the first page I see this:

Fetchmail can be started automatically and silently as a system daemon at boot time. When running in this mode with a short poll interval, it is pretty hard for anyone to tell that the incoming mail link is not a full-time "push" connection.

There is also a link to a manual.

Regards,
Don

[instabin]

Yes I have read that page and also looked in the manual.

Dont know how to get it to start on start up...

I want it to start like the httpd or smtpd services do...

[ScalixSupport]

OK, so I searched on fetchmail daemon and the first hit was:

http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/fetchmail.php

Have a look at this part of the page:

http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/fetchmail.php#cronjob

Regards,
Don

[KKJensen]

I'm aiming at doing the same thing...

After configuring everything as per these webpages and manuals...does scalix take over and put the mail in the right email box?

[instabin]

I'm aiming at doing the same thing...

After configuring everything as per these webpages and manuals...does scalix take over and put the mail in the right email box?

Fetchmail is working quite well.
.fetchmailrc file would look like this

poll mail.server.com proto pop3 user "username" password "password" is "user@here.com" here

[KKJensen]

Where is that .fetchmail? I've found fetchmail in /var/bin/ but that's not a config file.

Isn't the .fetchmail a config file for a specific user? I've read that there's one that one line (like you've written it) can be added for each user. If this is true it can't be attached to any particular users account could it? I could like to set up a cronjob to schedule the process every 5-10 min.

[KKJensen]

I created the fetchmailrc file in /etc/ and the command "/usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc -v" shows me that that everything is working!

Cool. Just got to crontab it...

Thanks for the help!