On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:44:32 +0000 a.bridge@insightbb.com wrote:
I have fetchmail setup to download messages from my companies ISP. It is doing that correctly for my test account. However when I use the email client (Outlook in this Case) i cannot download the messages to Outlook.
Am I missing a part here. Do I need to also be using Sendmail or Postfix along with fetchmail in order to allow Outlook to download the messages. Although I am not new to Linux this is my first attempt at something like this so any additional help or ideas would be very helpful. The end result I want is to use SpamAssasin to filter Spam before the User can download it.
Thanks as always,
Aaron
Aaron, Check to see if Outlook allows you to specify "localhost" as your incoming mail server. If it does, try that for your incoming mail setting. Fetchmail merely pulls mail down into /var/mail from whatever outside server your fetchmailrc file specifies. There it will sit until an email client calls it up. I've used Sylpheed, Thunrdebird, and Evolution, and all allow a user to pull mail from the "local" folder in /var/mail. I'd be surprised (or perhaps not?) if Outlook fails to do the same. With best regards, Pete Spotts -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter N. Spotts | Science Correspondent The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston MA 02115 Office: 617-450-2449 | Office in home: 508-520-3139 Email: pspotts@alum.mit.edu | www.csmonitor.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~