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I have a mail server being hosted on external ISP.
I recieve a lot of spam.
Current setup
Mail Cleint (Outlook express, outlook , pine ,etc) directly authenticating to external POP Server using a username and password
Modified setup :
Mail Cleint (Outlook express, outlook , pine ,etc) authenticating to Local intranet SPAM application server which inturn checks mail at an interval and stores mail locally by logging into External POP Server
Thank you for the suggestion.. can you please give me some links to this configuration..?
Fetchmail while installing on RHEL4 (sorry for not reporting my distro and other computer specs) has a lot of dependencies..thats really frustrating for me like anything..(as a matter of fact , being a systems administrator I shud be happy if system gives a problem)..but this one is eating my time like anything.
i'm not aware of anythign myself, but i'm sure google will see you fine. start with just a basic fetchmail configuration, then look to introduce the other functionality.
there is no "work around" you presumably simly do not have any server configured to connect outlook to the mail, via imap or pop3. one *REALLY* important point here is that once fetchmail has done it's thing and put the mail in the file, that's the end of it's job totally. if you then have another service, like courier-imap or dovecot allowing clients to obtain those mails, it has *nothing* to do with fetchmail whatsoever.
As you said fetchmail is downloading mails to a single file in $HOME folder..but I want this to be forwarded to a localuser..The localuser shuold be able to view this mails in outlook express..I hav tried alot..all yesterday night..but no sort of configuration is helping me out..
It makes no sense that if your clients are pointed at your local server and they can send mail to each other but can't receive mail from outside unless fetchmail is delivering external mail to the wrong location...
Probably I was not clear in stating what I wanted to say :
My current setup :
Outlook express on Win2k box --> Remote Hosting server for fetching mail with lot of spam.
I wanted to modify this way :
Outlook express on Win2k box --> spam free local mail box on Local mail server --> fetches mail from logging to Remote Hosting server
Anyways I resolved the issue the configuration was a problem..
here is my configuration :
poll REMOTE_SERVER protocol POP3
user user@remotehost there with password "itsasecret"
is user@remotehost here
keep
smtpname user@localhost
I am not sure what is happening behind but mails which are destined to user@remotehost are being successfully deliverd to user@localhost's mail box and am able to download all of them successfully using outlook express on the win2k machine..
I was expecting only a configuration for the fetchmailrc file which can directly forward mail to local smtp ..inturn the smtp shall handowvr this to cyrus imap..
smtp does not "hand over" mail to an smtp, as i said above, once the mail hits a file, that's it from the incoming side, wether it's an smtp reciveing mail, or fetchmail pulling mail. once it's in a mbox file, or Maildir folder, that's it. end of. from there, the imap server reads from a file.
what i would expect is making things work now is that you followed our advice and installed / confgiured an imap / pop3 server.
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