Re: Mail setup on new Debian desktop
Robert Ian Smit wrote:
Hi,
A couple of days ago I asked this group how well Debian can perform as
a desktop. Encouraged by the answers, I am currently building a Debian
system from mainly the testing and a bit from the unstable dists. Most
of it went well.
I am yet undecided how to do mail to and from my system. I know I can
install a client which logs in to the various pop-accounts I have and
handle things like I am used to in Windows.
I read the Mail-adm.-howto and know a little bit about 'how it should
be done' (tm). If I go down this route I think I will need:
Exim/qmail/sendmail, fetchmail, procmail. I can then use any mail
client I want to read and compose mail and change it any time without
conversion. Is this outline correct?
Is it recommended for a single user desktop system to do all this or
do most people just use pop and smtp from within Evolution/Kmail/etc?
And if they do, what happens with messages from system-users or
cron-jobs or whatever else might feel the need to warn/inform (super-)
users?
Do I have other alternatives than the two I mentioned or am I missing
something that I'd better know of in advance.
Thanks,
Bob
Your understanding is pretty much how I understand it also. Since I
check my mail from several boxes, I set up exim to just do local mail,
and them my various boxes' email clients (usually Mozilla Mail) to use
IMAP/SMTP. Occasionally I'm at a "strange" box, in which case I ssh into
one of my boxes and then use "mutt -f {mailserver.domain.edu}Inbox" to
use mutt in IMAP mode.
If I only had one box that was my main computer, I'd probably set it up
to use fetchmail/smtp, and then point my email clients to the local mail
repository.
Kent
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