[Gllug] Fetchmail > Exchange ....

[John Edwards]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:26:36PM +0100, Martin Stevens wrote:
> So reading through the man page, 
> 
> poll pop.isp.com with proto POP3 user "*****" there with password "****" -S 10.0.0.2
> 
> will download the mail from the isp and forward it on to the port 25
> on the exchange server to sort out (Where 10.0.0.2 is the exchange 
> server)
> 
> Is that right ?

Not quite, the "-S" is for the command line only. You need to use the 
keyword in the fetchmailrc file:

poll pop.isp.com with proto POP3 user "*****" there with password "****" smarthost 10.0.0.2

You will probably need to add "smtpaddress YOUR_DOMAIN" to get the mail 
server to accept the email, otherwise no domain is appended to the user 
name, ie:

poll pop.isp.com with proto POP3 user "*****" there with password "****" smarthost 10.0.0.2 smtpaddress somewhere.com

This will set the SMTP "RCPT TO" field to user at somewhere.com instead of 
just user.


Another good thing to do is to set a logfile at the top of the fetchmailrc 
file so that the output is saved:

set logfile	/var/log/fetchmail

And maybe add an new entry into /etc/logrotate.d to rotate the log file 
and keep for 5 weeks:

/var/log/fetchmail {
    weekly
    create 0600 root root
    rotate 5
}


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