[openbenno-users] Benno and fetchmail

[Rene Wiermer]

Am Mittwoch, den 10.06.2009, 10:14 +0200 schrieb Olaf Albrecht:
> Hi!
> 
> The Benno Mailarchive is running well - but dont fetch mails. What is to 
> do to get Benno to work whith fetchmail? fetchmail is still running for 
> each user and greps mails from different servers for them.
> 

Basically there are three ways for the mail into the OpenBenno archive:
through SMTP (benno-smtp), through a daemon that reads a Maildir in
certain intervals (benno-maildir) oder via a command-line tool
(bennoadmin).

If you want to make sure that you archive everything, you have to grab
the mail at the earliest stage possible - the local mailserver itself.
In Postfix e.g. you could make a "catch-all" address using always-bcc,
and then use  fetchmail to forward it to the benno-smtp at port 2500.
Alternatively, you could read directly from the catch all box, if you do
not have an POP3/IMAP server for that box.

So in your case (if I understand you right), it would look something
like this.

		fetchmail
Remote Mailboxes --------> Local MDA  --> Local maildirs
				|
				|
				V         fetchmail  
			Catch all mailbox ---------> benno-smtp
					  
					or
					  ---------->benno-maildir

You could also specifiy a multiplexer directly at the MDA to transmit a
copy directly to benno-smtp, if you want to avoid the catch all box. But
the setup in the diagram is more robust as it "caches" some mails. It
helps at peak and down times.


See the man page of fetchmail on how to configure the destination SMTP
server.



					
René Wiermer
(Softwareentwickler)

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