mlist@safenet-inc.com wrote:
Per Jessen [mailto:per@computer.org] responded:
postfix+courier+fetchmail+squirrelmail.
Could you elaborate on what seems different about his setup from mine, where the recommendation was:
INCOMING TheWorld > ISP's POP server > fetchmail > imap > mailreader
You have no mail-server between fetchmail and imap - I guess that's possible - but you aren't winning much - you might as well just fetch your email directly using POP3.
OUTGOING mailreader > ISP's SMTP server > TheWorld My setup is one SuSE 10 server (to be) serving a couple of other PCs that might be using any of SUSE 10, Win98, Mac OSX. In other words, a small home network.
I'd just like to understand the nuances.
The key thing is you have no local mail-server. If you never have any local-only mail, that is probably not a problem, but all sorts of daemons and services (cron for instance) will try to send you mail. I guess they're now just queueing up on the individual machines instead of e.g. being sent to a central account. /Per Jessen, Zürich