From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 22 20:42:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF0716A41F for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:42:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E6A13C44B for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:42:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h28so843556wxd for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:42:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.81.14 with SMTP id e14mr3110920agb.1182544971348; Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:42:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.4? ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id m29sm4028403wrm.2007.06.22.13.42.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:43:03 -0400 To: User Questions Organization: Seibercom.net In-Reply-To: <825839a80706221148q629c949eh770b0fbccb8ef399@mail.gmail.com> References: <825839a80706221148q629c949eh770b0fbccb8ef399@mail.gmail.com> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20070622163717.60EA.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.31 [en] From: Gerard Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Mail Retrieval Configuration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: User Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:42:52 -0000 On June 22, 2007 at 02:48PM Jarrod Hildebrand wrote: > I am working as a temp co-op student for a small business, and was given my > first project. Email responses are part our daily duties in my work > environment. We currently use gmail for our three email accounts. One is > internal, and the other two are not. Seeing as how gmail doesnt sync with > the other addresses, we have to constantly use gmails fetch settings to > retrieve mail from the other two addresses. Im in the midst of setting up > FreeBSD POP3 and IMAP4 for retrieving e-mail, and (LDAP) for directory > services. I need advice on how to configure the clients to retrieve there 2 > email addresses from there XP machines using FreeBSD. There are so many > ports and packages to use Im not sure which ones to pick, and where to > start. Ive got Procmail & Fetchmail installed on FrreBSD. I want to have > Exim to hand off the email addressed to Me@xxxx.com to procmail , which in > turn will run it thru SpamAssassin. Then to send a copy to GMail and deliver > one locally. Also archives a copy on the server in monthly mbox files as a > secondary backup > I got 5 days to have it up and running! > > Any configuration ideas for Postfix, Procmail, Fetchmail > The setup will only be used for retrieval only, with no need to use it as > an SMTP relay server. Im not looking for a large response, but if anyone > could give me some info on what to install (in what order) and how to > configure the protocols would be greatly appreciated. > There is no registered domain for our company, so my goal is to just receive > emails, and store them locally > Resource recommendations would help too. I use Postfix with Dovecot and Fetchmail to harvest email from GMail, as well as send it. You mentioned that you did not need SMTP services. Personally, I would loose Procmail. It is a memory hog, and Dovecot with sieve is a better proposition IMHO. I am not sure what you are exactly looking for; however, using virtual accounts with Postfix or Postfix and Dovecot might ease your setup problems. -- Gerard