Per Jessen [mailto:per@computer.org]
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.
I'm told that it's not only possible, but the recommended appoach for my simple household setup. I began fiddling with it before SuSE 10 came out, then got side-tracked. The point of the imap server was to hold my mail locally, accessible from any of the machines. For outgoing, there was no need to pass through any kind of in-house server since outgoing mail is just going to the ISP's SMTP server, and there'd be no added value to extra handling. I hadn't actually given any thought to system-mail. There's so little of it, that when I occasionally remember to go look at it, there's nothing interesting.
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.
Yeah. As I say, there's never anything noteworthy (that I recognize), so I just check once in a while, to see what's piled up. I suppose it would make more sense to have that all plucked from it's directory and shovelled into my mailbox. You're saying that some combination of fetchmail and/or imap can't do that? Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it.
mlist@safenet-inc.com wrote:
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.
I'm told that it's not only possible, but the recommended appoach for my simple household setup.
I think it could well be - although simple household setups rarely remain simple for very long :-)
The point of the imap server was to hold my mail locally, accessible from any of the machines. For outgoing, there was no need to pass through any kind of in-house server since outgoing mail is just going to the ISP's SMTP server, and there'd be no added value to extra handling.
That does depend on what you want/need. postfix does a lot of neat stuff. For inbound for instance, you could be doing virus-scanning etc. For outbound, rewriting local address to external addresses is one example.
I hadn't actually given any thought to system-mail. There's so little of it, that when I occasionally remember to go look at it, there's nothing interesting.
When your network/usage starts to grow, you'll want to keep tab of what your systems are telling you.
Yeah. As I say, there's never anything noteworthy (that I recognize), so I just check once in a while, to see what's piled up. I suppose it would make more sense to have that all plucked from it's directory and shovelled into my mailbox.
You're saying that some combination of fetchmail and/or imap can't do that?
I'm sure you could tweak and twist them into it, but I think setting up Postfix would be a lot easier. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution. Sign up for your free 30-day trial now!
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