Re: Mail Server Question

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 07:13 -0700, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
I just got a question froma friend who is running
FC5 on his home network plus other machines.
He wants to set up his own imap mail server on the
FC5 machine. This server would pull in mail from
another mail server using POP. My understanding
is that the mail servers normally use SMTP to
pull in their mail. Has anyone seen this sort
of setup.

The purpose of this exercise is that his kids jump
around from one computer to another and this tends
to spread out the email across multiple machines.
I suspect some of the machines are running windows.
Using iMAP, the mail can just reside on the local
server.

Thanks for any pointers.
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this isn't uncommon and I do exactly that at my house.

I use fetchmail to retrieve the mail from other server(s)

I use MailScanner to wrapper MailScanner and clamav inspection of
incoming mail

I use Postfix as the SMTP (fetchmail hands the mail off to SMTP)

I use cyrus-imapd as the local server for IMAP connections (though some
say that dovecot is easier)

Once that is all set up, all mail can be retrieved from any computer
using a mail client program set to use the IMAP account on the local
server. I also use horde/imp etc. for web based mail/calendaring/address
books, etc. which can also be shared among the users which would be a
great option for a family setup.

Craig

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