Re: [gentoo-user] modest mail server for home network

[gerrit <gerrit@dwerg.dnsalias.org>]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:03:32AM -0800, Robert Persson wrote:
> I want to set up a very modest home mail server that will collect emails from 
> other pop3 servers and make them available to 2 or 3 users using 1 or more 
> different clients on 2 or 3 computers. I have become very confused by the 
> various howtos. Even the gentoo ones, which on other subjects are usually 
> very good, in this case assume an awful lot of arcane knowledge and also say 
> preposterous things, such as that xyz server is easy to set up when it quite 
> plainly isn't.
> 
> I have spent way to much time trying to get courier running only to find that 
> (a) it doesn't work and (b) it doesn't seem to be able to fetch mail from an 
> external server. I then installed fetchmail, but can't find any howtos on 
> installing it as a service, or any clear explanation of how it plays 
> alongside courier or any other imap server.
> 
> The absolute #1 consideration is that the system must be easy to set up and 
> easy to move to another machine when the time comes. 
> 
> smtp is not important at the moment because the isp smtp service usually 
> works.

You should consider using getmail with cron instead of fetchmail. It writes
directly to maildir folders so you could probably do without a smtp server. To
make those maildirs available over pop3 and imap you could use the fairly
lightweight dovecot imap server.

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gerrit
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