Re: Smail to grab mail from other accounts?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 




> On 5/23/07, Paul Kelso <caveman@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hello, everyone,
>>
>> I am wondering after searching the support, plugins and other pages on the
>> SquirrelMail website, if SMail can be used as a master email server. By that
>> I mean, make a centralized area for all email accounts. Such as go to the
>> various accounts like aol account, your own domain account, gmail account,
>> and grab all the new email from those accounts, then when you sign into
>> SMail, its all there in one place.
>> If not, do you know of a file (php or other) that can do the above?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Paul

On Thu, May 24, 2007 2:22 pm, Wayt Gibbs wrote:
> Paul:
>
> If you run SquirrelMail on a Linux box, you can use the program Fetchmail to
> collect mail from other accounts feed it to your IMAP server.
>
> Otherwise, have a look at the Mail Fetch plugin (
> http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=17), which allows users to
> manually retrieve messages from POP3 mail accounts into their
> SquirrelMail-managed IMAP account. I run SquirrelMail on a personal Windows
> XP machine and use this plugin to periodically collect mail sent to my ISP.
> As far as I know, there is no way to make the plugin download mail
> automatically, unfortunately--it requires a user to click the "Fetch Mail"
> button in SquirrelMail to initiate the transfer.

Not so. It can indeed be automated, as that functionality is already built in to the
Mail Fetchmail plugin with these options:

  Check mail at login
  Check mail at folder refresh










-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express
Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take
control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now.
http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/
--
squirrelmail-users mailing list
Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines
List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user
List Archives:  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995
List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users

[Index of Archives]     [Video For Linux]     [Yosemite News]     [Yosemite Photos]     [gtk]     [KDE]     [Cyrus SASL]     [Gimp on Windows]     [Steve's Art]     [Webcams]

  Powered by Linux