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Hi all — |
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First question, where is $MAIL set for the users? It is set now |
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to /var/mail/[user] somehow, or is by default. If so, where is that set? |
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Anyway, I need to change to ~/.maildir. If not set to change, where |
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should I set it? |
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The situation (needing a reality check) is we have an ISP that gives |
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small mailboxes. We need to empty them. I work in many locations and |
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have several of these accounts that can fill quickly. |
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I have been leaving mail on the ISP server and using fetchmail to pull |
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to storage in my local user account ~/.maildir whenever I got a 'quota |
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warning'. If I needed any of these emails after the fact, I could open |
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with nail and forward. ('mail' seems to work if I reset $MAIL var as |
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above...) |
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Next, I thought to make these available via IMAP, so set up exim and |
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courier. I can't get IMAP to work, not sure why (perhaps Q#1 above |
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is related? Duh...). But at this point I can send email via smtp and |
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receive via pop3. SMTP is limited to within the network the pop3 is |
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working from anywhere. And local delivery works too. |
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So, I'll just set up a cron job for my user to run fetchmail on the |
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various accounts so to keep my ISP storage empty and pull the emails |
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via POP3 (until I get IMAP working). |
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Anything obviously awry with this kind of setup? Local users can send |
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via inside the net, world users can reply to email originating on the |
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machine. Setting the email address in the mail client to the ISP mail |
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address means failed emails and replies come back to the user... (and |
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SMTP doesn't also reject for failed reverse DNS lookup)... does |
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this seem all good? '-) |
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Cheers, |
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| |ichael | |iggins \^ / |
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