[fetchmail]fetchmail to Microsoft exchange 2000

[Rob]

Sorry my dumb typo mistake.....

Well the set up is  I have....
1)  an external email hosted server that runs postfix
2) I currently use pop2exchange to go and pop email off this postfix server 
and forward it to the exchange 2000 server.

This works fine, but pop2exchange is flaky at best and I can go days with 
out it working unless someone complains about not getting external email 
in...

So I was thinking of using fetchmail to pop the email off the postfix server 
instead of the pop2exchange doing it,  and forward it to the exchange 
server.

I thought of smtping it right from the postfix server to exchange server, 
but I do not know too much about postfix, plus its running in conjunction 
with VHCS2 hosting control panel.....

Is this any clearer? Sorry if I was obtuse before hand...

Rob...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Casey Allen Shobe" <lists@seattleserver.com>
To: "Rob" <rob@thehostmasters.com>
Cc: <fetchmail-friends@lists.ccil.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [fetchmail]fetchmail to Microsoft exchange 2000


> Please keep the list in the reply path to get more responses and also to
> benefit any others which have the same issue in the future.
>
> On Tuesday 12 April 2005 17:51, you wrote:
>> Thanks for replying so quickly, I thought of that, but I am now using
>> postfix rather than sendmail, I am not sure how to configure postfix to 
>> do
>> this...
>>
>> do you know how to set up exchange for this?  I currently use 
>> pop2exchange,
>> to grab email from the email server and forward it to exchange...
>
> For clarity, how exactly is your mail flowing?  Internet --> Exchange, and
> then you want one domain to go from Exchange --> Postfix?  Or Internet -->
> Postfix, and then one domain Postfix --> Exchange?
>
>> I just have to figure out how to forward only my domain form the server 
>> to
>> here at the office with postfix.....
>
> In the former situation (Exchange --> Postfix), you can run fetchmail on 
> the
> postfix server with a configuration like this for every user:
>
> poll exchange.server.com with protocol pop3
>        user your_username there
>        with password "your_password"
>        is your_address@postfix.server.com here
>        smtphost your_address@postfix.server.com
>
> (not sure if you'll need the last line, I think I added that to mine 
> because I
> needed SMTP auth or something - it's been ages since I set it up)
>
> Unfortunately, you'd have to add one entry for every user on the domain 
> this
> way (but you get to use fetchmail ^_^).
>
> I don't know anything about Exchange, but I imagine it at least has an 
> option
> per account to forward the mail to another address.  You could tell it to
> forward all mail to your_address@postfix.server.com - add 
> postfix.server.com
> (something that has an MX host of the postfix server address), and then on
> the postfix server have your_real_domain.com set up, and then
> postfix.server.com (substituting the actual domain of course) as an alias
> domain.  With qmail/vpopmail, you would use vaddaliasdomain - I don't know
> anything about postfix, but you might use the qmail example in a question 
> to
> the postfix list to give a clear idea of what you need.
>
>
> In the latter situation (Postfix --> Exchange), you could configure 
> postfix to
> route all mail for that domain to the exchange server.  This would be the
> simplest setup but again I don't know how to do it with Postfix (but use 
> the
> smtproutes example if you want to ask the postfix guys).
>
> Cheers,
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