#fetchmail

Gandi ne propose pas de faire MX secondaire pour ses clients.

Toutefois il propose un service de mails inclus avec le nom de domaine, donc si on héberge soi-même ses mails, on peut l'utiliser comme secours en cas d'indisponibilité du serveur de mail principal.

Il faudra donc au préalable avoir crée un compte mail [email protected] dans son compte dns gandi.

Ici on définit les serveurs de mail de gandi avec une moindre priorité :

# dig -t mx mondnsgandi.fr +short 10 mail.mondnsgandi.fr. 90 fb.mail.gandi.net. 80 spool.mail.gandi.net.

Ensuite il suffit de récupérer les mails ayant atteri chez gandi avec l'outil fetchmail.

Creer un fichier fetchmail.conf contenant:

poll mail.gandi.net protocol imap username [email protected] password monmotdepasse

Puis lancer la commande suivante depuis le serveur de mails principal :

# fetchmail -f fetchmail.conf -S localhost -ak -v

-S pour envoyer a localhost les mails recus par gandi, ils passeront donc par l'antispam du serveur de mails princpal, -a pour recevoir tous les mails, -k pour garder les mails recus coté gandi, -v pour voir que qu'il se passe.

Because I do feel like I'm the last one. Like the last Samurai or something like that. Of course I'm talking about desktop users not on servers (where it's probably still relatively widespread).

The other day I was pondering that I hadn't touched my mail delivering set up for years since I started using the combination of fetchmail + procmail for pop fetching, mutt as MUA and postfix as smtp server. I'm talking of around 9-10 years at least. I only added offlineimap to the configuration 4 years ago for syncing gmail mailboxes via imap.

There have been some new software that menaced this set up, like getmail instead of fetchmail, mstmp for simple smtp relying and fdm as a total replacement. None of those really moved me into changing my set up. Getmail is mostly equivalent to fetchmail while mstmp simply sends the outbound mails to a smtp server of choice, much like what I have configured postfix to do as I am on a dial-up connection and the isp would ban me if I'd use a smtp server without a full qualified hostname. Yet today I installed fdm and started configuring it but stopped without finishing for two reasons: 1. I don't receive much pop3 mail anyway. I might simply use mutt to read the new mails once in a while and copy them the hard disk if I wanted to keep them. This way neither fetchmail + procmail nor fdm would be needed at all. 2. I didn't like to learn a new program, with different regular expression rules (for 's sake, Regular Expressions!), make it work as procmail has always done and then test it simply to have 1 software instead than 2 (and saving 1,9Mb of space).