Re: Help with setting up email

On 15/03/2004 06:55 Andrew Cocker wrote:

Hi
I am confused and don't know how to set up mail so it works the way I
want I
to.

I have a registered domain myname@xxxxxx  It is configured so that all
mail
sent to *.myname.id.au is directed to my ISP where I currently retrieve
it
using Outlook on  Windows PCs via my Linux (FC1) server providing NAT.  I
have a 'permanent' ADSL connection but a dynamic IP address; therefore I
do
not have a fully qualified internet hostname.

I want to use Linux to retrieve all mail sent to my ISP and sort it in to
various folder in var/spool/mail based upon the address;
name1@xxxxxxxxxxxx,
name2@xxxxxxxxxxxx etc.  Members of my family will respectively retrieve
using POP3 and Outlook from various PCs on my home LAN.

POP3 is working OK and retrieves from the right folder in /var/spool/mail
and Fetchmail works OK but will not actually download because 'nothing is
listening on the port'.  I am confused about what I need to be running to
be
listening to Fetchmail and receive the mail so it can be sorted,
presumably
by procmail.  Postfix won't run without a fully qualified domain name and
I
don't have one.  How do I collect the output from fetchmail and sort into
mail spools.  Note I don't really want to be using Linux to send mail,
just
retrieve it.

If you don't want to run a MTA suchas Postfix or sendmail, you need to tell fetchmail to use a MDA instead as its default action is to deliver to port 25 on the local machine. Check out the -m <command> | --mda <command> option in the fetchmail man page.

HTH

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