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I've made some big progress getting the email working.
Brian, I was looking at the How-To that B. Densmore pointed me to at www.amason.net.
Another happy customer! Glad it helped you!
So far, the following working:
- Sending and receiving local and remote mail from mutt or
squirrelmail. 2) Mail is getting to ~/Maildir so IMAP stuff works. I can setup the IMAP connection via thunderbird, and pull mail from there. 3) Fetchmail is pulling mail from a pop3 account, and dumping it into my local account.
Here is what's not working yet.
- Fetchmail only runs when I tell it to (either with commandline or
the webmin interface). I am supposing that cron could handle this for me, but want to make sure there is no built-in fetchmail periodic checking feature that I'm missing.
I don't use fetchmail, so YMMV.
<quote> Simply invoking fetchmail -d 900
will, therefore, poll all the hosts described in your ~/.fetchmailrc file except those explicitly excluded with the 'skip' verb) once every fifteen minutes. </quote>
If you run this then you shouldn't have to worry about fetchmail only running when you tell it to. Also, you can add this line to your rc.local file and every time the system boots fetchmail will run as a daemon. Provided of course you have an rc.local and it is called as part of your boot process. Sure it's ugly to put it in rc.local like this rather than as a full blown script procedure, but hey it should work. The 900 is of course 900 seconds. No need for a cron entry.
- I _really_ want to find out if there is way I can get
fetchmail (or something else?) to put mail it gets from the pop accounts into IMAP folder based on which account it pulls from.
I'll have to research this one.
- I still need to get exim to send via my ISP's smtp server
for those domains that block dynamic hosts. I was reading that you can set it up to only use the smarthost for some hosts, and not all. I'm not sure if it would be better to selectively use the smarthost, or to use it for all mail.
It should be possible but you'll need to go into the exim config files for this. There are documents on how to do this. I haven't done it, but have looked at the exim documentation. I wish you luck. Lots of it. ;')