[afnog] Collection Engine

[David Peall]

> Thanks Mark. Apparently MDaemon supports ODMR, and I also 
> came across this
> free client for Windows: http://xatrn.panozzo.it/
> It seems this utility makes the ODMR connection, logs in, 
> then forwards the
> session to whatever mailserver you have listening on 
> localhost port 25.
> 
> It's worth testing with Exchange natively though. Judging by 
> the above page,
> I may need to accept 'TURN' as well as 'ATRN' (easy). I might 
> also have to
> make courier-authlib support NTLM authentication (harder).
> 
> If Exchange doesn't like the 'PLAIN' authencation mechanism then try
> enabling 'LOGIN' and 'CRAM-MD5' mechanisms on the server side.

Have a look at this:
http://www.plonk.de/sw/odmr/

I have set up Exim to bsmtp the emails for the domains in to relevant
directories of the same name.  Then just pointed the odmrd.pl at this
structure with account details in MySQL.  I haven't got Exim to pulling
the list of domains from MySQL yet so there is a text file "paths.atrn".

I use this client xatrn.exe( http://xatrn.panozzo.it/ ) or Fetchmail on
client side to direct all mail directly into their SMTP server.

Relevant config items from Exim:
######################################################################
#                      ROUTERS CONFIGURATION                         #
#               Specifies how addresses are handled                  #
######################################################################
route_append:
    driver = manualroute
    transport = smtp_appendfile
    route_list = "lsearch;/usr/exim/etc/paths.atrn"


######################################################################
#                      TRANSPORTS CONFIGURATION                      #
######################################################################
smtp_appendfile:
    driver = appendfile
    directory = /usr/exim/spool/bsmtp/$domain
    batch_max = 1000
    use_crlf
    use_bsmtp
    user = odmr

David Peall :: Systems Administrator
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