On 2006-11-20 at 01:45 +0000, Mike wrote: > Does someone have a configuration handy for using fetchmail(8) to pull If you're in a situation where, for reliability reasons, you dare not touch the existing config until you've gotten everything working, then for reliability reasons do not use fetchmail. It loses mail if there are problems, dropping them silently into the bit-bucket instead of leaving them on the POP3 server. It's not at all resilient. One option is getmail: <URL:http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/> It doesn't pretend to speak SMTP, I use MDA_external to invoke my MTA (Exim) as an MDA; this has benefits for you since if you're later going to switch to using direct SMTP delivery then you need to have your MTA configured and working, so this will test almost the same routing/delivery logic within the MTA (barring configured differences for locally submitted email, etc). [destination] type = MDA_external path = /usr/local/sbin/exim # %(recipient) relies upon Exim treating all domains accepted by ISP as being # local; mail loop possible if not careful. Can also consider using # "%(local)@spodhuis.org" but then losing some information for forwarded # domains. arguments = ("-oi", "-f", "%(sender)", "%(recipient)") I also turn off "delivered_to" at this stage in the [options] section. Regards, -Phil ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
