Integrating MDaemon and JaguarPC

[jsharman]

We currently use MDaemon to download email from another ISP, and we want to transfer that service to JaguarPC. Has anyone done this before, or do you have suggestions for how to automate the process without manually creating hundreds of new email addresses on Jaguar? We can upload a text delimited list of all username/addresses, etc., if that is possible.

Additionally, how do we configure MDaemon to POP (if that's the right protocol) email from Jaguar via the Internet?

Thank you for your help!
Joseph

[jason]

I suppose you could set up a single POP account and aliases for each user pointing to that account. That way everyone's mail would go to the same mailbox. Then MDaemon would grab all of that mail and sort it into local mailboxes (the to: header will show the address the sender sent it to so sorting will be easy). This should work for most mail, although it could cause some mailing list messages to be undeliverable. This may be an issue you are already dealing with.

Actually, now that I think about it, JPC accounts have a catch-all email address where any mail that comes to your domain with a recipient that is not known to the server is sent. So you wouldn't even need to set up aliases, you could just let the catch-all account get all of your mail and then config MDaemon to check that account.

The settings you would use for MDaemon would be POP3 protocol with mail.yourdomain.com as your server name. I played with MDaemon during my freshman year of college to create my own mail server in my dorm room (until my college stopped allowing inbound traffic on port 25 to the dorms), but I was running it as a stand alone server. That was several years ago, too, and I'm sure MDaemon has changed a lot since then, so unfortunately I can't offer you any specific help.

--Jason