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On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:03:32AM -0800, Robert Persson wrote: |
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> I want to set up a very modest home mail server that will collect emails from |
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> other pop3 servers and make them available to 2 or 3 users using 1 or more |
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> different clients on 2 or 3 computers. I have become very confused by the |
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> various howtos. Even the gentoo ones, which on other subjects are usually |
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> very good, in this case assume an awful lot of arcane knowledge and also say |
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> preposterous things, such as that xyz server is easy to set up when it quite |
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> plainly isn't. |
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> I have spent way to much time trying to get courier running only to find that |
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> (a) it doesn't work and (b) it doesn't seem to be able to fetch mail from an |
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> external server. I then installed fetchmail, but can't find any howtos on |
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> installing it as a service, or any clear explanation of how it plays |
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> alongside courier or any other imap server. |
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> The absolute #1 consideration is that the system must be easy to set up and |
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> easy to move to another machine when the time comes. |
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> smtp is not important at the moment because the isp smtp service usually |
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> works. |
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You should consider using getmail with cron instead of fetchmail. It writes |
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directly to maildir folders so you could probably do without a smtp server. To |
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make those maildirs available over pop3 and imap you could use the fairly |
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lightweight dovecot imap server. |
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gerrit |
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