On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:08:28PM -0400, Richard wrote: > Ron, > What components would I need to make this work for pop3 accounts ( no imap) pop3 accounts on which end? We've already suggested fetchmail for collecting mail FROM pop3 accounts and various solutions to put them into maildir format. Do you mean that you want to, after collecting, fioltering and sorting, send mail back out by pop3 to other clients? In that case I think you would use something like qpopper or others that will run a pop server in the machine. something along the lines of fetchmail (gets the mail from pop accounts) -> exim4/spamassassin (to filter and route the mail locally) -> qpopper (to serve the mail up to other pop3 clients) I know exim will handle maildir, I'm not sure about qpopper, but if not, then others surely do handle maildir. > again, keep all in pure text format of the emails, that any word > processor or text editior can read. > this is what maildir format is. A maildir is a directory with lots of text files in them. each text file is a single email with all its info intact. > heard of sql solution that could handle millions of emails. ( but > nothing for linux as of yet. ) many many many many large (really large) mail solutions are handled by linux machines. What you are trying to do can surely be done and most likely has already been done many times by others. I recommend you do some reading on mail servers and how it all works. A
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