Nathan, I think the solution I would be looking for would involve the outside parties/ISPs/whatever. The two you mention should allow forwarding of email, configurable through the webmail interface that is provided, eg. cybertrails and earthlink (they may not but they *should* ;)) Without knowing the structure of the company you are working for I have a hard time grasping why you are being asked to "suck down the email" instead of letting something like a .forward handle it on the other end. I know you wrote don't ask so I leave that part to you. That you have to figure out how to get what I can only assume is personal email for employees surprises me though. Most companies actively discourage outside or personal email. Perhaps a thin wrapper for the login script? Pulling email every 10 mins seems like overkill to a certain degree. Nathan England wrote: > Unfortunately, I only control my mail server inside the company. What we want > to accomplish is having our mail server get mail from outside sources. Some > of the employees want their cybertrails email, others want earthlink... > > (don't ask they why's please... I'm as irritated about this as you might be > just thinking about it, but as the IT guy, I'm forced to do this, and _make_ > it work!) > > I have all the employees who want external mail pulled in setup in a fetchmail > job that runs about every tens minutes. There's not a whole lot of people > involved in this, only about 15. The problem is, some of them get mail to > the outside account and then can't get it from our systems for apx: 10 > minutes... > So I'm looking for a way, instead of having a rotating fetchmail that keeps > running every so many minutes, something that will recognize when they 'pop' > in and check their external mail. > This has to be automated. When I introduced squirrelmail, most of these people > panicked! because it didn't say Microsoft or Outlook anywhere. And the > thought of these guys setting up their own fetchmail lists just scares me... > > It doesn't matter how complicated it is on my part, but the end users can't > notice any difference. > > nathan > > > On Thursday 31 March 2005 07:31, Patrick Fleming, EA wrote: > >>Nathan England wrote: >> >>>I need to have a mail server run a script when a user logs in. Anyone >>>know how to do this? Or any specific pop server that can handle this? >>>Basically, I have external clients connecting to a machine to check >>>their mail from that machine. But everyone is complaining about my >>>using fetchmail. I have it set to fetch the mail every 5 minutes. But >>>some clients are complaining that that is too long. So I am wondering >>>if there is a way for the system to fetch their mail when the pop is >>>accessed. ?? >> >>Nathan, >> >>What exactly are you trying to accomplish? >> >>Reading this thread it would *seem* as if you might be trying to get >>email from a third-party source. But reading your explaination above it >>seems like you are operating *both* or all mail servers involved. If you >>are managing both and only some email goes to an "outside" server for >>clients you could probably set up .forward files for people who need it >>on the "second" or "outside" server. That way, as soon as it's processed >>by spamassassin and clamavis and whatever other filters you run it can >>just be dumped onto the "outside" machine. I would configure the >>"outside" machine to only accept email from your mail server and cut >>down the hardware requirements for your "outside" machine. >> >>Another way of doing this is to alias incoming email to the "outside" >>machine (again assumes you control both) for those users that need it. >> >>Is this what you are trying to accomplish? >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------- >>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss