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Use POP3 on a remote catch-all mailbox for local delivery
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 manually 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 catchallusernam@yourdomain.com with pass yourpassword to * here smtphost localhost
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