Hi all,
I need a solution to a problem one of my client is having.They have a remote mail server in another country,and getting mails from this server is really slow.So they want an intermediary mail server at their office so that,they can be getting their mails from this second mail server,but then,a copy of the mails should be left on the remote server.Any ideas?Please

On my system I have a cron job copy the mail spool file from one server over SCP (Secure copy), and then append it to the mail spool file on my local system. You could just as easily make "local system" a mail server running a POP3 server.

The only thing that is needed for this to work is to have SSH authentication set up using public/private key's (SCP uses the same authentication as SSH), as the background job won't be able to ask for a password. There are a number of tutorials on setting up keyed authentication.

Hi Chadl,thanx.I was thinking,can't fetchmail do what you said could be done here above?

Yes, fetchmail can do exactly the same thing. The only reason that I use SCP in my setup is because my computer is behind a firewall that prevents inbound connections, so I have my computer make an outgoing SCP connection instead.

I also think that the fewer services that I run that are open to the internet, the fewer security holes that my system's could have.

Yeah,thats true.I have never used SCP before.Is there suppose to be some configurations at the remote server end,if one was to use SCP?

SCP works over the SSH protocol, so if SSH works, then SCP will also work.

The only requirement that this script adds is that you will need to have public/private key's setup for login, because the script will run in the background and can not accept passwords.
Here is a tutorial covering how to set-up authentication over SSH using keys: http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/..._Keys_with_SSH

Here is the script that I have running on my computer to get the mail from the remote server:
Note that this script removes the mail from the remote server. In order to change that you can remove line 5 that tells the server to empty the remote mail file.
Just removing this line will cause problems without doing something else, however, as it will result in the same mail being downloaded from the server and thus duplicated on the local mail spool.
I can not think of an easy way to fix this off the top of my head, but I will post if an idea comes to me.