Retriving E-Mail off other Servers

[n8fau]

What I need to do is log in as a user and retrive e-mail off 3 different e-mail servers and in one case distribute them in different "local" sendmail accounts. Need to keep all mail on a "central server".

Any advice would be helpful

Bob

 

[RhythmAce]

I don't think i understand the question, but if you're asking how to configure sendmail to do this, the answer is it can't. Sendmail doesn't pop mail off of servers. You are going to need a popmail program for that. What you can do however, is got to all 3 off those mail accounts and set them up to forward mail for each account to your server. Then you can configure sendmail to distribute them into local mailboxes. Sendmail doesn't actually handle local mail but passes it on to a program designed for that task such as "procmail" or whatever you have on your machine. I'm assuming you have a linux box since you mentioned "sendmail" Let me know how things turned out. Good luck.

 

[n8fau]

Thanks for the response... Exactly what I was looking into.. I'm running into having multiple e-mail clients with e-mail spread over a bunch of workstations. So, having e-mail on one server that I control the quotas on would be advantagous..

I'll continue digging to see if I can find something that will do what I want to do...

Thanks again...

Bob
n8fau@cris.com