alright, I have not really seen where this can be done, however I know
it can be. I have a blackberry address and a seperate work email
address...I need to be able to forward mail from my work address to my
blackberry. I know this has to be possible, its touted in the
evolution readme...but I don't see where it can be done. Is it
possible to use the .forward file in my home dir to forward email via
evolution? Or will that only forward mail incoming to my local host?

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Ok, let me start over...


I have fetchmail installed...I setup a ./fetchmailrc and was able to
get mail from my exchange server. I also have the exchange plugin and
IMAP setup with Evolution. I want to use evolution to read mail, but I
understand you can use fetchmail to forward the incoming mail...am I
correct in assuming this?

I have my fetchmailrc file setup like so

poll SERVER with proto PROTOCOL
user REMOTE_USER there with password REMOTE_PASSWORD is LOCAL_USER
here


like i said I can connect, and I can see mail there, but I want to be
able to forward that incoming mail to name@blackberrydevice.com

thanks!

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On 2007-02-02, Sambuh <samuel.stroud@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have fetchmail installed...I setup a ./fetchmailrc and was able to
> get mail from my exchange server. I also have the exchange plugin and
> IMAP setup with Evolution. I want to use evolution to read mail, but I
> understand you can use fetchmail to forward the incoming mail...am I
> correct in assuming this?

You could read the fetchmail manual which describes pretty well what it
does. By default fetchmail delivers freshly fetched mail to the local
box using smtp.


> like i said I can connect, and I can see mail there, but I want to be
> able to forward that incoming mail to name@blackberrydevice.com

There are, as usual, many ways you can do this. For example, you could
teach your local MTA to also forward everything incoming to that address
to wherever you want it. You could use a .forward, if the mta supports
it. You could have procmail do it, if you have that setup. Maybe
evolution can do it -- see the evolution documentation. The major thing
to watch out for is mailloops.

You do not need fetchmail to do it, as it is meant to do something else,
namely, hand mail off to something that is good at sorting mail.


Then again. IMAP allows you to keep your email on the mailserver instead
of storing it locally. If that server forwards everything (as well as
putting a copy in the inbox), you could save yourself duplicating all
that locally just for you. Then again, it's exchange and is not really
suited for internet email.

That also reverts the question from unix administration to asking your
friendly exchange admin to set that up on his server for you.


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