Fetching mails from a remote server

[fredo]

Hello,

I tried to look that within this forum and in the admin guide but didn't see anything related to this. (Maybe i've skipped some part)

I would like to fetch mails for my LAN users from a remote server. (retrieving these mails and have them sent to respective mailboxes).

Sorry if this question have already been catered for ... send me a link to the related info is that's the case.

Cheers

[StefanD]

You can use fetchmail for this.
See:
[SOLVED] Fetchmail from other servers (aka account aggregation)

[fredo]

Sorry, just seen a sticky about fetchmail regarding something similar from what i want. Can i run fetchmail alongside Zimbra ? I thought that postfix (installed with the zimbra suite) could be configured to do something like that within Zimbra ?

[phoenix]

Sorry, just seen a sticky about fetchmail regarding something similar from what i want. Can i run fetchmail alongside Zimbra ?

Yes, if you need to collect mail from other (ISP) accounts then you need a program to do it - fetchmail gets the mail and delivers it to your local SMTP.

I thought that postfix (installed with the zimbra suite) could be configured to do something like that within Zimbra ?

No, Postfix doesn't do that. Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent and (basically) it just sits there waiting for a connection on port 25 from another MTA which will deliver the messages to it. Postfix isn't designed to fetch mail from some other system.

[jimbo]

I've used fetchmail as described above to collect mail for specific users, but how would I collect mail from a pop3 catchall account and forward to zimbra to be distributed to local accounts?

I've tried the following:

poll mail.example.com
    proto pop3
    user test@example.com password 'test123' to * here

as well as:

poll mail.example.com
    proto pop3
    user test@example.com password 'test123'
    smtphost mail.mydomain.com

Both fetch the mail successfully but never get delivered locally.

Any ideas?

Sorry if this is posted elsewhere in the forums but I couldn't find it in my searches.

As always... Thanks!

jimbo

[fredo]

That's what i used in my fetchmailrc config file :

//Beginning of fetchmailrc file
set daemon 600 (polls server every 10 mins)

//First user
poll mail.example.com
proto pop3
user "user1@example.com"
pass "example"
is "user1@example.com"

//Second user
poll mail.example.com
proto pop3
user "user2@example.com"
pass "example"
is "user2@example.com"


You must create your zimbra accounts first and the line "is "example@example.com"" is one of your zimbra accounts that you created.

I don't know if it's right to do it like that but it works for me. I'm still testing the server anyway.

[jimbo]

OK,

I've got it figured out...

This worked...

poll mail.example.com localdomains mydomain.com
    proto pop3
    no dns
    user test@example.com password 'test123' to * here

This will fetch all mail from the multi-drop pop3 account named test on the mail server 'mail.example.com' and forward them to zimbra for local delivery

[mansuper]

Thank you friends.

I have been struggling with the same and finally did it. Please reply me if there could be any other issues that could raise.

Heartfull wishes

[gihrig]

OK,

I've got it figured out...

This worked...

poll mail.example.com localdomains mydomain.com
    proto pop3
    no dns
    user test@example.com password 'test123' to * here

This will fetch all mail from the multi-drop pop3 account named test on the mail server 'mail.example.com' and forward them to zimbra for local delivery

Multi-drop is not really suitable for production use. This is because of things the internet/isp mail server does when forwarding mail to a single drop account, or processing bcc mail in general that result in the information fetchmail needs to route the message to the correct local account being lost.

The code above works well for mail addressed 'to' or 'cc' the recipient, but in my experience, identical messages to multiple users are lost after the first user and bcc mail is always lost.

For details on why this is, see the fetchmail FAQ: http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/f...il-man.html#25

The only solution I have found is to support individual user accounts in fetchmail. Unfortunately, this means maintaining user, password and email in three locations (Zimbra, fetchmail and internet/isp mail server).

-Glen