Afternoon all,
I'd like to set up a little box to be a local mail server. It would receive
mails from other machines on the LAN, and it would fetch POP3 mail from my ISP
and IMAP mail from google mail. KMail on my workstation would then read the
mails via IMAP. That's all. I might want to add a few extras later, such as
receiving SMTP mail for a .me domain I own. My present total of emails is
about 4000.
I used to have a working system on a box that's now deceased [1], but in
replicating it I'm having difficulty threading my way through the mutually
inconsistent Gentoo mail server docs, omitting the bits I don't need and
interpreting the rest. Bits I don't need? Database backend, web-mail access,
web admin tools, fancy multi-user authorisation, any other baroque complexity.
So I'm asking what systems other people use. I can't be unusual in what I
want, so there must be lots of solutions out there somewhere. Would anyone
like to offer me some advice?
1. Yes, of course I did have backups, but in juggling the media I managed to
lose them. A world of advice to others: don't grow old. :)
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Regards,
Peter.
I'd like to set up a little box to be a local mail server. It would receive
mails from other machines on the LAN, and it would fetch POP3 mail from my ISP
and IMAP mail from google mail. KMail on my workstation would then read the
mails via IMAP. That's all. I might want to add a few extras later, such as
receiving SMTP mail for a .me domain I own. My present total of emails is
about 4000.
I used to have a working system on a box that's now deceased [1], but in
replicating it I'm having difficulty threading my way through the mutually
inconsistent Gentoo mail server docs, omitting the bits I don't need and
interpreting the rest. Bits I don't need? Database backend, web-mail access,
web admin tools, fancy multi-user authorisation, any other baroque complexity.
So I'm asking what systems other people use. I can't be unusual in what I
want, so there must be lots of solutions out there somewhere. Would anyone
like to offer me some advice?
1. Yes, of course I did have backups, but in juggling the media I managed to
lose them. A world of advice to others: don't grow old. :)
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Regards,
Peter.