[Gllug] Fetchmail > Exchange ....

[John Edwards]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 06:36:42PM +0100, Martin Stevens wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I have a client who has a linux box and an exchange box.
> 
> What is the best way to get mail from a pop3 account and 
> put it into the exchange server ?
> 
> They currently have a weird setup that i want to simplify
> 
> The software I have available is 
> 
> Fetchmail and Sendmail on Linux,
> 
> Mercury/32 and exchange on NT
> 
> Pegasus and Outlook on the clients.
> 
> I'm thinking using fetchmail to get the mail from the pop3 server
> then sendmail to forward it on to the exchange server on port 25.
> 
> Would this work ?
> 
> Leave the addressing to the exchange server to sort out ?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Martin Stevens

Have you had a look at the smtphost, smtpaddress and smtpname options 
in the fetchmail man pages ? This would make fetchmail pass the mail 
straight onto the Exchange server.

You can still include sendmail in the chain if you want, either setting 
it as a satellite system which delivers all email to a smarthost, or 
you the alias system for selective forwarding.

Although either fetchmail or sendmail can do the address munging, it 
may be cleaner if you allow the main mail server (Exchange) do it.


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