[DominikHoffmann]

At work we are a satellite operation of a company headquartered half-way across the country. Headquarters runs an Exchange server with POP enabled. We have a Mac OS X Server (Panther) box on which I can turn on a Cyrus imap server.

What I would like this server to do (ideally have the Cyrus process do) is periodically check my local users' POP accounts on the Exchange server, retrieve new mail, and store it in the imap mail storage.

Can this be done? If so, how?

Dominik Hoffmann

[Mithras]

This is a job for fetchmail. Don't use it myself but I know it does pretty much what you want; fetches remote mail via POP (or whatever), and then forwards it via SMTP on localhost, so your Cyrus server receives it.

[Gavin]

Squirrelmail can do this - it's a web front end for cyrus written in php. You can set it up to download new mail from any pop account on log in.

It's kind of roundabout but you could have a cron job get the 'check my mail' page with lynx.

Or if you want to get fancy you can dig through the php code, find the bit that downloads the pop mail and call that directly. php can be run like a shell script.

[DominikHoffmann]

Originally posted by Mithras:
This is a job for fetchmail.

Thank you very much! It is currently working very well for my own account. I now have to figure out, how I can automate the launching of a fetchmail daemon session on server startup. I'd love to have a startup script step through the list of users (without feeding this information to the script explicitly) and run their .fetchmailrc files, if they have them.

Dominik