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Afternoon all, |
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I'd like to set up a little box to be a local mail server. It would receive |
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mails from other machines on the LAN, and it would fetch POP3 mail from my ISP |
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and IMAP mail from google mail. KMail on my workstation would then read the |
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mails via IMAP. That's all. I might want to add a few extras later, such as |
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receiving SMTP mail for a .me domain I own. My present total of emails is |
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about 4000. |
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I used to have a working system on a box that's now deceased [1], but in |
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replicating it I'm having difficulty threading my way through the mutually |
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inconsistent Gentoo mail server docs, omitting the bits I don't need and |
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interpreting the rest. Bits I don't need? Database backend, web-mail access, |
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web admin tools, fancy multi-user authorisation, any other baroque complexity. |
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So I'm asking what systems other people use. I can't be unusual in what I |
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want, so there must be lots of solutions out there somewhere. Would anyone |
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like to offer me some advice? |
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1. Yes, of course I did have backups, but in juggling the media I managed to |
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lose them. A world of advice to others: don't grow old. :) |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |