Config local and remote email

Wow, what a PITA that turned out to be, but it is working like I want it to -- finally!

For future reference (probably mine), this is what I did:

(I'm masking actual addresses, userid, and pbuttword in this example, obviously. Also sticking in the bottom comments just the hell of it.)

~.-.fetchmailrc (Made it under user I want it running for and chmod 600)

(Also, for some reason, I seem to only have success running fetchmail by "fetchmail --daemon love", love being number of seconds between checks. Docs say "fetchmail -d love" or even putting a daemon line in .fetchmailrc do the same thing, but wouldn't work for me. No big deal. "fetchmail --daemon love" works great!)

.-fetchmailrc ------------- set postmaster "user"

poll smtp.a.net with proto POP3 with pbuttword "pbuttword" is user here # keep fetchall

poll smtp.b.net with proto POP3 with pbuttword "pbuttword" is user here # keep fetchall

# And then the same thing for C, D, etc. Postmaster "user" is just the account for mail to kickback to should anything go wrong. -------------

And then I put in the following for:

etc-mail-mailertable ------------- a.net esmtp:smtp.a.net b.net esmtp:smtp.b.net c.net esmtp:smtp.c.net d.net esmtp:smtp.d.net

# smtp.x.net being the actual SMTP servers -------------

as root, did a:

Then, just for good measure, restarted sendmail. Don't know if thats needed, but I confess to it being "black magic" as to what 90 percent of how sendmail works, so why not... (I think I'll pick up O'Reilly's Sendmail book soon, so maybe after reading into that, only 80 percent of sendmail will be "black magic".)

For the silly "from field" translation, I'm just using each email client's tools to do all that. Even in pine, mutt, and the web interface thing, this seems pretty straight forward with rule setting.

Why is it that these PITA things always seem to work themselves out RIGHT when you get to the point of saying, "F' this sh't!"

Just happy its all working. I tried receiving and sending in a zillion different combinations just to make sure that it is all working. It'll be great having everything "centralized"!)

Next up --- procmail....