From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FGj5N-0008SO-T5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:47:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k27Kk7Rq024019; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:46:07 GMT Received: from hnexfe10.hetnet.nl (hnexfe10.hetnet.nl [195.121.6.176]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k27KexWA029906 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:41:00 GMT Received: from _HOSTNAME_ ([81.205.60.2]) by hnexfe10.hetnet.nl with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6874); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:40:59 +0100 Received: by _HOSTNAME_ (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:40:58 +0100 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:40:58 +0100 From: gerrit To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] modest mail server for home network Message-ID: <20060307204058.GA7022@reus> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <200603071103.32403.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200603071103.32403.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r782 (Linux) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Mar 2006 20:40:59.0725 (UTC) FILETIME=[71375FD0:01C64227] X-Archives-Salt: 5de02895-248d-4b2d-8809-c33216a37592 X-Archives-Hash: 201855b0f02b8740d876185f679c5028 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. -- gerrit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list