Hi I am moving the company's e-mail service from the mail server onto a seperate mail server which runs Ubuntu (I used the "perfect setup" guide). The current mail server runs Exchange. I have read about using Postfix to back-up Gmail e-mail, so I assume connecting to a mail server and fetching the mail should be no problem? I have a feeling I'm not making myself clear, so to clarify: I want Postfix to fetch all e-mails (I can do this seperately for each e-mail account) and place it in the users' mailbox. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot! James.
It's not Postfix doing this. Postfix does the 'transport' of email, and delivers it into a destination. What you want is 'fetchmail'. You will need to configure a .fetchmailrc for each user and start a fetchmail process for each user. 1. I don't know if Gmail accepts fetchmail client 2. This is highly error prone. Every little change (eg a password change) will make you go out and change the fetchmailrc file 3. Resource intensive. You will have as many processes as you have users. Reconsidering after writing this (though I didn't want to delete it), maybe fetchmail is not such a good idea, but I don't have a better one at the moment.
This will only be a one-off, and the current (exchange) server is on the local network... is this ok to do?
fetchmail should work - if you look at it it's just a POP3 client (of course a special one ), and you can connect to Exchange and Gmail with a POP3 client.
