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Istvan Gabor wrote:
etc.). My current question applies to the mail host server which downloads messages from the ISP's pop/imap mailboxes, stores the messages, and the stored messages can be downloaded/viewed by LAN MUA clients.
Perhaps for clarification - that is not the job for a mailhost, that is a job for e.g. fetchmail which might then feed the mails to your mailhost.
The manuals say that I have to set up a user and the messages will be downloaded for that user. But I don't want to add such user on my server. What is the way of configuring the downloader (eg getmail) if I don't want it to download the messages for a specific user? I'd like getmail to download the messages not in the name of a user but on its own to an arbitrary named mailbox folder (either mbox or maildir).
It's been a long time since I've had reason to play with fetchmail, maybe ten years, but I'm sure you can run fetchmail as root and have it fetch emails for an arbitrary account and store it anywhere. I don't know anything about getmail.
Also I don't want to set up users on the server for those clients that can access these message folders . I want that the client authorize itself by login name/password on the mail server without the need of having a user login on the server. Is this possible?
No. How can a client login with login name/password if the server doesn't know them?
I want the server (getmail or fetchmail) download my messages from the mailbox user1@mail.isp.provider and store the messages in a mailbox folder named arbitrarily, eg "localuser1", without the need to add a user "localuser1" or user1" to the system. Then I want that these messages could be accessed by a MUA client (eg thunderbird through the server's pop3/imap server).
Is this scenario possible?
Yes, but you'll have to use some sort of authentication mechanism. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.4°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org