Difference between revisions of "Use POP3 on a remote catch-all mailbox for local delivery"

Revision as of 12:59, 21 January 2010

You might already have a remote POP-3 mailbox that handles all your mail. When you setup Group-Office in your office it can be very useful to save the remote mail in local mailboxes so you don't have to buy a lot of diskspace at your mail provider and you get optimal speed when reading the mail. For this setup we assume you have installed the Debian / Ubuntu package "groupoffice-mailserver" or you configured your mailserver manualy like described in the page Mailserver.

First setup yourdomain.com in Group-Office at the E-mail domains (postfixadmin) module. Configure all mailboxes.

After that install fetchmail:

apt-get install fetchmail

edit /etc/default/fetchmail and change:

START_DAEMON=yes

Create or edit /etc/fetchmailrc:

poll mailserverof.provider.com localdomains yourmaildomain.com
     envelope X-Envelope-To
     user catchall@yourdomain.com with pass catchall to * here smtphost 127.0.0.1

Change the permissions:

chmod 0710 /etc/fetchmailrc
chown root:root /etc/fetchmailrc

Now start the deamon:

/etc/init.d/fetchmail start

You should see some info in /var/log/mail.info.

You can find more information and configuration examples in the Fetchmail manual