From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 11:34: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC50937B417 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 11:33:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16j3eG-000Dn9-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 07 Mar 2002 19:33:56 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 9B09B13040 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 20:33:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 474E522597; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 20:33:53 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 20:33:53 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FBSDQ Subject: Re: Can postfix retrive mail from user ISP mailbox? Message-ID: <20020307193353.GA5743@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:05:36PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > I read that sendmail can request mail retrieval from a ISP mail account. > > Can postfix do this? > Any MTA can do this with the SMTP protocol, if your ISP allows it (most don't). Possibilities are: - Your ISP will inititate SMTP connections to you to send mail. This is also not very common but my ISP actively supports it. - Your ISP when you connect to it with SMTP (as when sending mail) you can send an ETRN request. This asks the remote MTA to initiate a connection back to you to send any mail you have. Most ISP's won't let you do this either (mine won't) because there is a perceived security risk. Postfix (any MTA in fact) will handle this. That's for SMTP. For POP, IMAP .. I will leave the explanation to someone who uses it :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message