mlist@safenet-inc.com wrote:
So, I thought I'd set fetchmail to get my mail from the ISP onto the tower, then use CyrusIMAP to serve my mailreader on the laptop. I understand that postfix has to be www.allwww.allo.cho.chin there somewhere (at least for the outgoing mail being sent to the ISP's SMTP server, and probably for some other part of handling - not clear on that.
Yep, you'll need postfix (or exim or sendmail) for inbound and outbound mail.
By the way, I don't have static IP from my ISP (I can get for an extra ten or twenty bucks per month if that will make a difference.)
If you intend to use fetchmail, it doesn't matter.
At 16:03 yesterday, two messages from another mailing list were grabbed and put into /var/spool/mail (also /var/mail) in a file called "elefino" (my ID on that computer... I'm writing from my work account "mlist" at this moment). That's the only mail I've seen that fetchmail might have handled. The fetchmail log says that it has retrieved several more messages in the hours since four o'clock yesterday afternoon, but I don't know where they are going.
Did you instruct fetchmail to deliver mails to postfix?
I looked in /var/spool/postfix, and it has a nice structure of directories including active, bounce, corrupt, defer, deferred, flush, hold, incoming, maildrop... Half of them were created/modified in March (when this version of SuSE was released) and the rest were created yesterday. They all appear empty. I have to view them as root, because of the permissions.
You can ignore those. Any mail should turn up in /var/mail/ .
Does fetchmail hand off directly to CyrusIMAP? or is it Postfix that handles it between fetchmail and CyrusIMAP?
It depends on your setup, but presumably fetchmail hands off to postfix, which then delivers to directories from which CyrusIMAP can serve out mail to end-users.
Somewhere I read about port 25?
That would be SMTP port for inbound mail.
Where do I find out?
I would suggest reading a few howtos - there's plenty of good readable material on fetchmail, postfix and the whole process/setup. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/freetrial - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution. Sign up for your free 30-day trial now!