From ilug-admin@linux.ie Mon Sep 2 13:12:59 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: zzzz@localhost.netnoteinc.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB2C47C7B for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 07:43:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phobos [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for zzzz@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 02 Sep 2002 12:43:00 +0100 (IST) Received: from lugh.tuatha.org (root@lugh.tuatha.org [194.125.145.45]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g82AagZ28789 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:36:42 +0100 Received: from lugh (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lugh.tuatha.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA30797; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:36:06 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: lugh.tuatha.org: Host root@localhost [127.0.0.1] claimed to be lugh Received: from bramg1.net.external.hp.com (bramg1.net.external.hp.com [192.6.126.73]) by lugh.tuatha.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA30760 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:35:56 +0100 Received: from fowey.BR.ITC.HP.COM (fowey.br.itc.hp.com [15.145.8.186]) by bramg1.net.external.hp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 9346213A for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 12:35:55 +0200 (METDST) Received: from 15.145.8.186 by fowey.BR.ITC.HP.COM (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT); Mon, 02 Sep 2002 11:35:54 +0100 Received: by fowey.br.itc.hp.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55) id ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:35:54 +0100 Message-Id: <253B1BDA4E68D411AC3700D0B77FC5F807C0F3EF@patsydan.dublin.hp.com> From: "HAMILTON,DAVID (HP-Ireland,ex2)" To: "'ilug@linux.ie'" Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:35:53 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55) Content-Type: text/plain Subject: [ILUG] The Age Old 'Which Mailer' Question Sender: ilug-admin@linux.ie Errors-To: ilug-admin@linux.ie X-Mailman-Version: 1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Irish Linux Users' Group X-Beenthere: ilug@linux.ie I am trying to manage the email for a domain which I have hosted with hosting365, and am trying to get the whole email send and receive thing working nice and easily. At the moment I have configured Fetchmail to poll the different pop3 mailboxes and deliver the mail accordingly, although it appears that I have to have only one unix user being able to receive from each pop3 mailbox. This could be a limitation of the fetchmailconf programme, I'm not sure, but It would be much handier if I could just tell it to collect all of the mail from the different mailboxes, and then deliver it locally according to the "To:" header instead of the pop3 mailbox it came from. The other issue I am having is sending outgoing mail. I have been trying to use sendmail, but am finding it to be an absolute pain in the posterior, and when the relay server will only accept outgoing connections if I have checked for incoming mail in the last twenty minutes, and I don't know how to set sendmail to run a command before it sends out the mail. Do any of the outgoing mailer programs, exim or postfix or whatever, have a 'nice' configuration interface, or do they all have nice friendly configuration files like sendmail. Any suggestions of alternative solutions would be much appreciated. There are only three or four email addresses in my domain, and setting it up for scheduled collection and either scheduled or immediate delivery would do me fine. Thanks, David. David Hamilton Senior Technical Consultant HP Ireland -- Irish Linux Users' Group: ilug@linux.ie http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: listmaster@linux.ie