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Topic: Quick Question Before I actually install iRedMail

Hi I'm looking to perform an installation of iRedMail, I've read many blog posts, watched numerous youtube videos, and am quite pleased with what I see, but I still have one question remaining.

For my install I do not plan to have a public facing static IP with port 25 open to the internet, instead what I plan to do is use the POP3 mailbox provided on my domain by my domain registrar.

To do this, my plan is to have my iRedMail server periodically just log in to this POP3 box and download all of the email in there using "fetchmail"

Is this a scenario that iRedMail can handle, and more is the point can I install and deploy iRedMail in this manner without having to point the various MX/DNS records at my iRedMail server, as they are already set up correctly for my domain.

To facilitate this, I would suspect that iRedMail would still be listening on port 25 but only on localhost and that fetchmail will just download and push email into iRedMail at that point.

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Shawty

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2 Reply by dave.opc

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Re: Quick Question Before I actually install iRedMail

iredmail server is a server for mail, not a program (like outlook, thunderbird) to just get your mails from other server. So can't understand whats the purpose of your plan is.

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Re: Quick Question Before I actually install iRedMail

dave.opc wrote:

iredmail server is a server for mail, not a program (like outlook, thunderbird) to just get your mails from other server. So can't understand whats the purpose of your plan is.

Hi Dave,

Yes I'm aware that's what iRedMail is (A mail server system), I'm building this into a small office workgroup server to distribute email to that office.

The office does NOT have a static public facing IP however, so my plan is instead of having email be delivered directly to port 25 from other MTA's, I want to use fetchmail to collect and inject mail into the system via localhost:25

I have created other mail servers that work this way in the past, but never using iRedMail (or any premade mail system for that matter) I've always done them by hand.

The system I'm about to build needs a GUI to manage the postfix instance, so I've decided to try iRedMail to provide that.

Can iRedMail support the use of fetchmail to perform this task, or will it sulk and refuse to work if I attempt to use it on a server that is not reachable from the outside world.

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Re: Quick Question Before I actually install iRedMail

Whats the point? then ppl can ust use a mail client to get their mail from desired domain, i don't see a single reason to "abuse" iredmail for fetching mails from other servers

iredmail doesn't offer fetchmail at all, since it is a full scalable mail SERVER and not a mail CLIENT

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Re: Quick Question Before I actually install iRedMail

i think in your case the best solution is to ask your ISP a static public IP address
or
get a dedicated server from hosting provider and install iredmail there