[fetchmail]Fetchmail and a Barracuda

[Rob MacGregor]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:04:31 -0600, Nick Bellomy <nick@3tpro.com> wrote:
> We've just recently deployed a Barracuda spam filtering device and have
> been quite pleased with its performance.  I've been tasked with finding
> a way to use the device to filter some of our clients home/isp email
> accounts.  I believe that I could use fetchmail to retrieve the messages
> via POP, change the To address from user@ISP.com to something like
> user_ISP.com@filteringservicedomain.com, and redeliver the message to
> the Barracuda filtering box.

As long as the mailboxes being polled by fetchmail are single drop
then yes.  Just use the standard recipient re-writing facilities.  If
it's multi-drop then you'll need to run a local SMTP server to
re-write the recipients.

> Would I be able to have fetchmail deliver to the Barracuda via SMTP or
> would it need to go through a local MTA?  Thanks for the help.

Fetchmail can deliver to any SMTP server, whether it's on the same
host or a remote host.

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