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?
>>
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