Mail Server (Fetchmail working)

[Derek Broughton]

David McGlone wrote:

>> I meant, how did you look in the
>> mailbox?  I presume you mean you opened it with a mail program, but which
>> one?  I'm not sure what difference that actually makes, but we can't
>> diagnose it if we have no idea what program you're using.
> 
> I don't think I can explain it. I am using webmin, and all I have to do is
> click on an icon in webmin to see all of the mailboxes for my system. did
> you know even fetchmail has a mailbox. :-)

Well, yes, and not really...  ime, if mail is getting delivered
to "fetchmail", it's probably an error.  When fetchmail is running as a
system daemon (rather than per-user), the default destination for mail
is "fetchmail".  Your fetchmailrc file needs to specify the "is USER here"
phrase for the mailbox being fetched to tell it to deliver to USER,
otherwise it goes to fetchmail.  Also, I'd always set an alias
in /etc/aliases for fetchmail to whatever account I use for admin mail (ie,
all mail on my system for root, webmaster, mail, fetchmail, admin, etc, go
to a single account).
> 
> Anyway, So far I have managed to get fetchmail working. Here's how I did
> it:
> 
> I took some of the the suggestion of Bruce Marshall (Thank you Bruce) and
> integrated it into my fetchmailrc, take a look:
> 
> defaults
> proto pop3
> port 995
> ssl
> 
> mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F -d %T
> 
> poll pop.att.yahoo.com
> auth password
> user "d.mcglone at att.net" (at = @ I just changed for precaution of
> spam)

should have:
  is dmcglone here
(or whatever you use for your local account) unless that procmail command
line expands out to a particular user account 

> pass "ha ha your not getting"
> keep

> Now that I can fetch mail, all that is basically left to do is configure
> multidrop or forwarding.

Are you really getting mail for multiple users from one mailbox?  That's
multidrop, and fairly awkward.  Usually it's easier to just set up unique
mailboxes, since email addresses are so easy to get these days.
> 
> And last configure either postfix or sendmail to deliver mail. 

With postfix, it's just a debconf question - it'll ask how you want to
configure mail sending, and you say "smart host", giving it your AT&T smtp
server's address.
-- 
derek