On Mon, 6 Apr 2015 11:18:22 James Knott wrote:
On 04/06/2015 09:07 AM, ianseeks wrote:
Thanks. I'm going to move to imap as that seems the best thing to do.
IMAP is definitely the way to go. With it, you can have as many email clients, on as many devices, as you wish. While you're at it, configure for SSL/TLS, as this provides encryption between you and the server.
I run a local Dovecot IMAP server, with fetchmail collecting emails from four different external email accounts, plus my wife's email as well, all on a Raspberry Pi. It also runs spamassassin, procmail and sendmail for local delivery, and does it all with an average CPU load of 0.01 (but you must use compiled rulesets with spamd, otherwise the CPU load goes through the roof). The nice thing is that it can run 24/7, headless, making no noise, using <5W worth of power, and all my mail clients (my openSuSE desktop and laptop(s), iPad, iPhone or my wife's Windows 7 Laptop) read the mail locally via Kmail (on Linux), the iOS Mail client, or M$ Outlook. I also have it setup so that mobile clients can read the mail remotely, either via NAT/Port Forwarding using IMAPS/TLS, or via a secure SSL VPN tunnel (preferred, but not as friendly for the non-techie wife). For management, I have it using private key authentication (no password) via ssh, and I can of course access that via the VPN tunnel as well (which, incidentally, is managed by an openVPN server running on another Raspberry Pi). And yes, there is an openSuSE image for the Raspberry Pi, but I haven't tried it yet. Mine are running Raspbian, but I've got a spare so I'm hoping to fire that up with oS and see how it goes. I guess all that was to say that yes, I agree, IMAP is definitely the way to go. -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org