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?
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