From: Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail server
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 17:03:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <797591903.0ifERbkFSE@lenovo.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a1af16e-6c4e-9df9-ad66-4980688ee4f8@youngman.org.uk>
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On Sunday, 19 July 2020 16:48:29 BST antlists wrote:
> On 19/07/2020 15:18, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > So I'm asking what systems other people use. I can't be unusual in what I
> > want, so there must be lots of solutions out there somewhere. Would anyone
> > like to offer me some advice?
>
> Doing my best to remember my setup ...
>
> Running postfix as my mail server. I never managed to get it working to
> SEND email, so clients had to be configured to send straight to my ISP.
> Don't send to google - it rewrites the headers ...
>
> Used fetchmail to download, until an upgrade/fix/something broke MySQL
> so all my virtual email addresses broke.
>
> Use Courier-IMAP to provide access from clients to the mail store.
>
> I *think* that's all, but I dunno how long my system has been running
> (it hasn't even been updated for a couple of years :-( and apart from
> that MySQL problem it's been running untouched pretty much from day 1.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
Notwithstanding a recent security vulnerability net-mail/dovecot may be able
to do all you want/need from a home mailserver.
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-19 14:18 [gentoo-user] Local mail server Peter Humphrey
2020-07-19 15:48 ` antlists
2020-07-19 16:03 ` Michael [this message]
2020-07-19 16:22 ` Steven Lembark
2020-07-19 16:26 ` Petric Frank
2020-07-19 19:49 ` Grant Taylor
2020-07-20 11:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-07-20 14:55 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-07-20 16:39 ` antlists
2020-07-20 17:25 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-07-21 8:34 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-07-21 0:25 ` William Kenworthy
2020-07-25 12:09 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-07-27 21:10 ` james
2020-07-28 8:23 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-07-28 15:01 ` james
2020-07-28 16:05 ` Wols Lists
2020-07-28 23:18 ` james
2020-07-29 5:10 ` Grant Taylor
2020-07-29 7:51 ` Wols Lists
2020-07-29 12:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-07-29 15:41 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-07-29 15:55 ` antlists
2020-07-29 16:35 ` Peter Humphrey
2020-07-29 19:28 ` Grant Edwards
2020-07-31 16:14 ` Grant Taylor
2020-07-31 16:09 ` Grant Taylor
2020-07-31 20:05 ` Grant Edwards
2020-08-01 18:48 ` Grant Taylor
2020-08-01 19:47 ` antlists
2020-08-01 23:36 ` Grant Edwards
2020-08-02 5:24 ` Grant Taylor
2020-07-30 23:38 ` Ralph Seichter
2020-07-31 16:16 ` Grant Taylor
2020-07-31 20:01 ` Grant Edwards
2020-08-01 18:52 ` Grant Taylor
2020-08-01 19:53 ` antlists
2020-08-02 5:26 ` Grant Taylor
2020-07-31 21:23 ` Daniel Frey
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2020-07-28 23:11 ` [gentoo-user] " james
2020-07-29 9:20 ` Wols Lists
2020-07-29 23:23 ` james
2020-07-30 9:05 ` antlists
2020-07-30 11:13 ` Remco Rijnders
2020-07-30 11:19 ` Remco Rijnders
2020-07-30 12:48 ` antlists
2020-07-30 13:28 ` Remco Rijnders
2020-07-30 14:41 ` antlists
2020-07-30 23:30 ` Ralph Seichter
2020-07-31 16:38 ` Grant Taylor
2020-07-31 19:39 ` james
2020-08-01 17:52 ` Grant Taylor
2020-07-31 16:30 ` Grant Taylor
2020-07-31 18:01 ` james
2020-08-01 18:11 ` Grant Taylor
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