Setting mail server to check other (remote) POP accounts

Can someone tell me what technique is used to configure Mac OS X (Tiger) Server to retrieve mail from other POP servers? I am wanting to use an internal mail server at my organisation for main mail handling (most large emails are between people within the building) and have it automatically retrieve emails from various ISP mail servers.
This way, users appear to have a very fast connection to the mail server, and if it ever goes down they can still connect to the ISP's server and still be able to retrieve new messages.
Also useful for collecting a desparate collection of email accounts into one, and have the mail filters act on it.
I've come across etrn & uucp, but they don't sound like this is what they were designed for.
thanks,
Ray.

Thanks Jeff. Just the one word was required to send me off in the right direction. I had encountered sendmail, but couldn't recall it to get a man page on it.
One other question (couldn't find mention of it in discussions): I have played with it and got it working for my account by running it manually (and as a daemon under my user).
But the question is how do I get it to launch at startup? Do I put a .plist in the /Library/LaunchDaemons? And if started this way, will it automatically notice all the ~/.fetchmailrc files and process everyone's mail?
Thanks for your help.

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s.

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Since I updated to OS 10.4.8, mail has stopped working properly. Whenever I try to get mail from my pop accounts, it crashes immediately. As long as I stay offline, the program seems to work.
I tried deleting my accounts and re-entering them, but that didn't have any effect. Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it?
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You're welcome.
There is probably some corruption in one or more of the files used by the junk filter. The following procedure thoroughly gets rid of all those files, so that Mail creates them anew:
1. Quit Mail if it's running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/.
3. Locate LSMMap2 and move it to the Trash. This file stores information about what does and doesn't constitute junk, and is what allows the junk filter to learn. Clicking the Reset button in Preferences > Junk Mail also deletes LSMMap2. The file was called just LSMMap in early versions of Mail, delete that as well if you see it.
4. Locate DefaultCounts and move it to the Trash. This file keeps statistics about the number of messages that have been marked as junk, either automatically by the junk filter or manually by the user.
5. Locate MessageRules.plist and move it to the Desktop. This is where Mail 2.x stores all rules, including those used by the junk filter. If there is a file called MessageRules.plist.backup, move it to the Desktop too. You may also see MessageSorting.plist files there; this is where Mail 1.x stored the rules, and they are no longer used by Mail 2.x, so just move them to the Trash if you see them.
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7. Go to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/. Locate any Junk.mbox folders there (their name may include the account name in parenthesis), and move them to the Trash.
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8. Open Mail. As a result of removing the rules file, the junk filter will be disabled now. You may want to either tell Mail to go offline immediately after opening it, or shut down the Internet connection before opening Mail, to prevent it from downloading anything until the junk mail filter has been enabled again.
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Should I just start using OS X server to run mail services
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The basic setup is prety simple...
Replace following with your own equivalents...
Domain name: woopee.com (the domain name after the "@" in your emails)
Host name: mail.woopee.com (the hostname your MX record points to. Does not need to match server hostname. This will be the hostname mail server uses when communicating with other servers)
Local Host Aliases: woopee.com (a list of the domains you want to accept mail for. Probably just same as Domain name?)
Local network: 192.168.10.0/24 (LAN IP range for local users. Used to bypass authentication when they send mail out)
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Tick:Enable POP
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Mail-> Relay
Tick: Accept SMTP relays... Enter localhost IP: 127.0.0.1/32 and Local network (from above).
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Mail->Filters
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Tick: Attach subject tag: * Junkmail *
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Watch the mail.log in Console for any errors & do plenty tests.
Ensure users have mail enabled in Workgroup Manager.
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Hello,
         I'm an Admin for a treatment center and one of our psychiatrists has a BB Tour. He asked me the other day if I could set up his email account on our exchange server for him on his phone. Going through the mail setup wizard I selected "Other" account and set it up for IMAP and then it asked me for his email address and password. It took the domain name and then assumed the mail server names were as such. Now in a perfect world, this wouldnt be an issue. I recently took over for a complete moron and this guy has our MX records pointing to a 3rd party company where all of our outside emails go and then the Outlook clients are set up to pop this box in addition to the Exchange setup (I know its totally lame). What Ive done for everyone else is just setup a IMAP account using the server IP address and mail works fine for them. I cannot for the life of me find where I can actually edit the mail server names for the IMAP account I create on his BB Tour. Is this a limitation the phone? Or am I not looking in the right place. Thanks!
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Yup -- refer back to my first reply where I said to use the carrier BIS website...while I didn't say it quite so clearly, I did not say to use the on-device email setup wizards.
The device interface to BIS (aka email setup wizards) and the carrier website interface to BIS have subtle differences. For what you need to do, you need to use the carrier website from a PC/browser. Here is the link:
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Hello,
I would like to test internal mail service with Snow Leopard Server (before trying a service accessible from the web).
I have a dynamic IP from my ISP and I use a DYNDNS xxxx.dyndns.org to access my server from the web (but maybe it is useless for what I want to do).
1/ The DNS is configured most simply this way :
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Of course, it does not work : mail cannot connect to the IMAP and to the SMTP server.
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My network background is light and all I could read about DNS did not help me.
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SAlut Rikki49,
Je vois que tu viens d'Anger alors je récris en français...
Je n'ai même pas tenté ton expérience pour la raison suivante:
J'ai aussi une IP dynamique pour mon serveur Snow leopard et les serveurs smtp qui relaient les mails d'un serveur mail avec une IP dynamique sont simplement blacklistés....
TU pourras donc éventuellement recevoir des mail via ton serveur et ton dyndns que tu héberges mais tu ne pourras pas en envoyer...
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Pre won't let me put in an ip address for a mail server name when adding a new account.

I can type it in, but it won't let me that add the accunt (sign in button doesn't work). If i put a name in there, it lets me click "sign in".
is this a known issue? any workaround for this? we don't have a qualifed name so i need to use the ip address of our mail server.
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prehelpme wrote:
I can type it in, but it won't let me that add the accunt (sign in button doesn't work). If i put a name in there, it lets me click "sign in".
is this a known issue? any workaround for this?
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As a result, I can only receive mail with these services.
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I called Verizon and they said BlackBerry provides the mail access through their servers and the applet, so there is nothing they can do.
Is there a way to set it such that I can not only receive but also send mail through either of these services?
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OK, thank you for the input.
The problem I have with this solution is like the one I have now using yahoo.
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2) people who send me mail to the Cox account and get replies from me from the blackberry continue responding to the account that can send from the blackberry (not Cox), and from that point on I do not have that mail on the computer.
The issue of having two copies is no big deal, I just delete the mail I do not need. I would rather have two than none.
Really, Blackberry should modify the email service so that they directly support mail systems like those of Cox and 1&1. I am sure there are others. They should also allow the use of another port for SSL than 995. I have not seen anyone using 995 for SSL.
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Hi,
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Suggest you watch this video:
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