Re: local Mail: naive question
nate, 2002-Oct-22 12:34 -0700:
> Jerome BENOIT said:
> > In fact I want to fetch my different POP boxes
> > to my laptop and still read my email with a Mozilla
> > which deals with POP or IMAP stuff:
> > so I guess taht I have to install a POP stuff on my laptop.
> > Does it sound reasonnable ?
> > Is there a more orthodox way to do the job ?
>
> it is probably cleanest to run a MTA(Postfix,Exim,Sendmail) and
> a IMAP server locally(Courier, Cyrus, UW IMAP) and use something
> like fetchmail to retrieve mail to the local system. Then use
> mozilla to login to your local IMAP server to read email. this way
> if you were to connect your laptop to a network you could access
> your email on it from another system by logging into the IMAP
> server.
Would an IMAP server really be necessary? Fetchmail could retrieve
IMAP and POP mail and a MDA(procmail,maildrop) could deliver it to local
mailboxes(mbox,MH,maildir) and then Mozilla could read from the
mailboxes. I don't think Mozilla requires a MTA, so sending mail
could be done directly. I'm just thinking how it could be made as
simple as possible.
Hmm...I was just messing around with Mozilla Mail (woody) and it
doesn't appear that it supports mbox format although the mailboxes it
creates look like mbox, accept for the permissions (0644). It looks
like you would need an IMAP or POP server to access the mail fetched.
IMAP would probably be easier to deal with as nate says.
However, you could simply create a different mail account in Mozilla
for each POP mail account. Mozilla would retrieve message for each
one. I believe you'd have only one outgoing mail server though. This
way you wouldn't need to install a MTA, MDA and an IMAP server.
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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