[Gllug] Email servers

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:03:13PM +0000, Dylan Brewis wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I've been trawling thru books and docs for days over this and have got 
> thoroughly confused. I want to set up the necessafy services so that one of 
> my machines will periodically collect mail (by POP3) from my ISP and then 
> allow it to be collected (again by POP3) by users' mail clients. I figure I 
> use fetchmail for doing the ISP collection, triggered by cron, but I don't 
> understand the stuff about maildrops and forwarding etc. I don't want the 
> mail to end up in a users' home directory, I want them to be able to POP it 
> off the local network.

imapd or popd are your friends.
You need to remove the disable flag in /etc/xinetd.d/{ipop[23]|imap} or enable it
in /etc/inetd.conf

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Alain Williams

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