"In reality, what you are doing is rather short sighted."
"all for non-business use seems to be rather small thinking."
Just as a Linux advocacy aside, is this the warm and inviting
atmosphere we want to convey? I can imagine what people considering
posting a question to this list must be thinking...
-Erik
On Mar 31, 2005 7:31 AM, Patrick Fleming, EA <
plug@rwcinc.net> 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?
>
>
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