Re: [SLUG] Email Cascading?

[Jeff Waugh <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<quote who="Kevin Fitzgerald">

> I want to set it up so that scalix.company.dyndns.org periodically goes to
> mail.company.com.au, gets the mail and puts it in the appropriate
> mailboxes.  I know that one way to do this would be set up forwarders at
> mail.company.com.au but this does not actually clear the mailboxes there
> and they will max out over time. 
> 
> Is my example possible? Can anyone point me in the direction of Docs to
> look at or URLs that may explain it for me. I'm not a newbie but I am
> still green in places 

I'd recommend looking into ETRN and in particular, ODMR support for the MTAs
you run. This will be vastly more satisfying than hacky fetchmail/procmail
stuff. :-)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETRN

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODMR

- Jeff

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