In a previous message, Oskar Teran wrote:
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). sounds like a job for fetchmail!!
I don't think so, at least, not by itself. AIUI, fetchmail would deliver email to each individual machine on the LAN. What I want is for one machine to download the email and store it locally, with the other machines connecting as and when via IMAP to access this central email store. This is because I have a few computers round the house and we might access the same email account from any machine (although the gateway machine would always be on). If fetchmail can do this, I don't quite see how from the man page. I need a mail server that is running on this box to receive and process IMAP requests from other machines. So, yes, fetchmail would get the email *to* the server, but what would actually *be* the IMAP server? John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Fields of Valour: 2 Norse clans battle on one of 3 different boards