POP3 Email Forwarding

[Matt Smith]

Ok this maybe a complicated one but I appreciate any help!

I am looking to collect and forward email from an external POP3 server to a user on my server. I also require these emails to go through SA before hitting the inbox. I believe that Fetchmail will do the job but I am open to any suggestions!!

Many thanks in advance.

Matt

[jason]

Are you using a control panel? If you have cPanel and you set up both an alias (or forwarder or whatever cP calls them--I'm too lazy to look) and a POP3 account for the same address, I believe you will get the action you desire. At least I know it worked a few years ago that way. I can't speak for other systems because I haven't tried.

The other solution would be to use the "public" address as a alias that points at both the external address and the pop3 "private" address. For example:

POP3 you-private@yourdomain.com
ALIAS you@yourdomain.com POINTS AT you-private@yourdomain.com AND you@external.com

--Jason

[Matt Smith]

Hi Jason

I think you have misunderstood or I have not questioned right!

I want my server to pull in pop3 email from a different server, and distribute it to my users on my VPS (WHM & cPanel). Horde allows you to retrieve external mail by using fetchmail, this is exactly what I want but I don't want to have to login to Horde to 'fetch' my external mail, I would like a cron job to run every 10 minutes or so.

[jason]

You're right, I did misunderstand your question, though it was in my reading of it and not how you asked.

I think running fetchmail via cron would probably be the best solution for you. I'm sure there are other ways of doing it, but fetchmail can do it all without any user intervention (like Horde would) and since it will forward to the local mail gateway (SMTP server) it will deliver messages to the proper mailboxes, handle forwards/lists/etc. without problems, and won't bypass any of your spam filtering.

--Jason

[Matt Smith]

Hi Jason

Many thanks for the reply.

Ok so fetchmail will do the job, I have never installed or configured it before, I believe it is installed for Horde although it maybe a cut down version? Anyway.. do you know where I could look to get some tips on setting it up?

[Matt Smith]

I have found http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_etch_fetchmail which is putting me on the right track!