Mail Server (Fetchmail working)

[Derek Broughton]

David McGlone wrote:

> On Friday 26 October 2007 3:27:30 pm Derek Broughton wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> Not yet. I haven't got past configuration for 1 user yet... LOL What I am
> aiming for is to get mail for me and my wife and kids from AT&T which they
> each have an individual e-mail address, and stick it in their mailbox's on
> my server and then they will be able to read it either on the desktop
> (which is also the server) or on the laptop

OK, that's not what fetchmail calls "multidrop" then.  You just set it up to
fetch eatch user's mail successively, and deliver to the appropriate
destination.
>>
>> > 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.
> 
> Hmmm, how did you answer this question? did you run debconf or.....
> 
> Is procmail and postfix the same thing?

No.  Procmail is a local mail delivery agent.  It accepts mail from another
program and puts it in the appropriate place for mail readers to see it,
but it doesn't send it across the Internet.  Postfix is Ubuntu's preferred
SMTP server, and it includes a mail delivery agent, so procmail isn't
really required unless you want extensive filtering of the mail before it
goes into user folders. 
-- 
derek