[Gllug] Fetchmail > Exchange ....

[Martin Stevens]

Wow, that sounds very usefull, gonna look into that one,
it could well be the thing i need.

Cheers

Martin Stevens

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:57:58PM +0100, John Edwards wrote:
> 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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