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Re: Home Mail Server



On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:46:24PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Antonio Rodriguez" <arodriguez31@cfl.rr.com>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Home Mail Server
> 
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 09:23:22PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to set up a home mail server here (have had previous posts
> re:
> > > Exim) and I've discovered I now need to concentrate on sendmail due to
> > > wanting to utilise the benefits of mimedefang.
> >
> > man procmail, man procmailrc, man procmailex
> >
> > mail is delivered to your machine by fetchmail, filtered through the
> > procmail recipes (very simple to create) which will make local copies,
> > redirect them to whereever you want (exim), etc. Your choice.
> > HTH
> > AR
> >
> Thanks Antonio,
> 
> I have actually been through those man pages, and they did enlighten me to a
> few things I didn't know before. Then again, that's not hard as I don't know
> much about Linux mail servers yet  :-)
> 
> I'm more after whether I should be going down the path of individual mbox's
> for each user or just leaving it to go into /var/mail/username.
> 

The points I can think of:

1. The mail storage type the pop3 or imap server you are going to use to
   give your users access to their mail requires. (I use courier-imap
   which only works with maildirs so there wasn't much choice in that
   case).

2. You will need to check the pop3 protocol to see how transactions are
   made to see if this can happen and if so look at the mail server
   documentation to see what is actually done but potentially mboxes can
   be download in one batch (if I remember pop3 correctly it can't be
   done though and you do need to ask for each mail at a time), while
   with Maildirs you need to download one file at a time. On the other
   hand, relevant mainly with unstable connections, some clients can be
   set up to erase each mail after download instead of deleting all
   mails when the download is finished which saves double downloads if
   the connection dies in the middle of the transaction.
   With nfs mounts for the /var/mail directory there probably would be
   an advantage to single files.

> Pete
> 
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