downloading emails using POP3 vs fetchmail

[john99]

Hello

as I understand ZCS can be configured to download emails from our ISP for local
delivery either using POP3 or fetchmail.

Fetchmail seems to be much more complex to setup (that has to be considered because
the faster our ZCS eva environment runs, the better.. But probably with the help
of webmin, even I would be able to setup fetchmail properly :-)


Questions:
Is there a way to set setup a "global POP3 service" which downloads the mails
of all users from our ISP mbox to our Zimbra mail server?


Or ist POP3 not at all recommended for such/my an environment?




Thank you very much for any clarification/help :-)

John

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by john99

Questions:
Is there a way to set setup a "global POP3 service" which downloads the mails
of all users from our ISP mbox to our Zimbra mail server?

There is no support for that in Zimbra and it's only available on a per-mailbox basis, you'd be far better having the mail delivered directly to your Zimbra server.

[uxbod]

Plus, by using fetchmail the emails will be subject to AV/AS checking aswell

[john99]

Originally Posted by phoenix

There is no support for that in Zimbra and it's only available on a per-mailbox basis, you'd be far better having the mail delivered directly to your Zimbra server.

Originally Posted by uxbod

Plus, by using fetchmail the emails will be subject to AV/AS checking aswell

Good to know those things, thank's a lot! It's pretty sure that I am going to install Web in order to configure Fetchmail, even I am not very exited to install
such an apps on my Zimbra-box...


Mabe it sounds strange, but is there a big advantag or even a must, that Webmin is installed on the same machine like ZCS?


Thank's a lot!

John

[uxbod]

Personally I never use WebMin as I prefer to do it from the CLI and have full control over what is happening.

[john99]

Ok, I am going to try to find a Zimbra related fetchmail-howto.


Thanks for the help!

John