Re: local Mail: naive question
Auke Jilderda, 2002-Oct-23 20:47 +0200:
> Ofcourse you can go fo either the most simple setup or a more flexible
> one.
>
> Jeff is looking for a simple setup which would, in my humble opinion,
> probably be some MUA (e.g. Mozilla) fetch mails directly from your POP3
> and IMAP accounts and sending mail through your ISP's mailserver.
Yup, that's what I was going for.
> Nate described a much more flexible setup which I, in fact, have. In my
> setup, fetchmail fetches my mail from various POP3 accounts and delivers
> it through Exim and procmail to the proper mailboxes. The courier-imap
> server provides access to the mailboxes, giving me both location and MUA
> independence. My reasons for wanting those two capabilities is that I
> want a text based client (Mutt) when on the road and without proper
> mouse and keyboard and a GUI client (KMail, Ximian Evolution,
> SquirrelMail) when at my dockingstation. Ofcourse I can send you my
> config files and a more detailed description of my setup if you'd like.
Personally, I prefer and use this for the flexibility too. I use
mutt, postfix, maildrop and fetchmail.
> In addition, it is wise to install a mailserver on your local machine if
> only because lots of daemons would like to use it to tell you things.
This is the only thing I haven't done [yet]. It's on my list to do though.
>
> Auke
cya,
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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