On 05/23/2003 09:36 PM, John Pettigrew wrote:
I would like to run a mailserver on my linux box (SuSE 8.2) that will connect to my ISP's pop3 servers, download the email and then serve this by IMAP to clients on my home LAN (three machines total).
What are the best apps to do this with, and how easy are they to set up? There doesn't seem to be any documentation on this - possibly because it's not a common thing to want to do :-)
Use fetchmail to download your email from your ISP's pop3 servers, delivering to your local users set up in your 'imap server' machine. Use the imap-2000 package for serving that mail via imap. Check the SDB for an article to get the imap running from 8.2 (it is built to either use encrypted passwords, or plain text through SSL, which means you would need to make an SSL certificate (instructions in SDB) and access it through imaps. It sounds harder than it actually is. HTH. BTW, although I am using the pop3 side, I am doing this on my home machine, with the addition of adding the antivir scans to postfix and spamassassin via procmail. So, all mail comes in via fetchmail, which hands it off to postfix, which scans with antivir for viruses (my client is Windows for the kids), which gives it to procmail for local delivery, which pipes it through spamassassin to deal with spam, finally delivering it to the local mailbox. The pop3 server then interacts with the clients to give them their mail. Works well. -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.