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 1FGhxd-00012d-Jn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:35:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k27JXSGJ017608; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 19:33:28 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.199]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k27JTDIC010175 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 19:29:14 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o1so940nzf for ; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:29:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fG2tYal+OxEFuy0U17sufJkhyInRhCxrrqJ/H5rEvzI/dNwojITbnLKZi78NbRzdDve6iDW/NB0c5lYpXEUUigGVhl7/EqfCiTfsFycHawXx9YNz6OkteyZYmLf90pW5c8w/wlXqZSx7mM8AlmJxAICAg0VMpcYpt+Skzzw4j5w= Received: by 10.36.84.20 with SMTP id h20mr990088nzb; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:29:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.39.10 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:29:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <39c715d00603071129w35b89b7cxa254ec12eeff5369@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:29:13 -0500 From: "Mickey Mullin" Sender: pyrolupus@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] modest mail server for home network In-Reply-To: <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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <200603071103.32403.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k27JTDIC010175 X-Archives-Salt: d9ccb0cd-ec66-4307-874e-8576d8d167d9 X-Archives-Hash: b70b70b2ba132bc1061d3b1547df7921 On 3/7/06, 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. > [snip] > 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. >>From "man fetchmail": "The --daemon or -d option runs fetchmail in daemon mode. You must specify a numeric argument which is a polling interval in seconds." Two things that may help searching for that sort of thing in the future: 1) "services" as you know them on Windows are referred to as "daemons" on Linux/UNIX and 2) if you are in man or less, "/" (forward slash) begins a search, and then "n" repeats the search (after typing it and hitting enter). > 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. Unfortunately, what you describe is not a simple or common setup, so "easy to set up" may be a difficult goal to accomplish. Also, fetchmail expects an SMTP service to which it can deliver the mail it receives. It seems to me that the minimum you need are: an SMTP server, a POP3 server, and fetchmail. You could probably get by the simplest by creating system actual users on the Gentoo mailserver box for each of the people in your scenario and setting up fetchmailconfs in each user's home directory. Then use the most basic SMTP and POP3 servers you can find (ssmtp may even work). Ironically, I've never set up such a simple configuration, so I can't guide you much further than that. Mickey -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list