Re: Question about creating a mail server

Randy Yates wrote:

If you want your mail to your homeserver, then fetchmail could be a better
option and use your client programs to access the inbox directly.

Not familiar with those tools/terms. Is this an IMAP?

fetchmail is a tool that fetches mail from external servers and store those on
the local machine. You can set fetchmail to probe on time intervals, say every
third minute (it's all up to you how often), this will be quite useful if you
have many mail accounts all around the net, instead connect your client to
each of those, you just set it to read the inbox and you have all your mail in
one place.

Imap, pop3, smtp won't collect mail for you, you need to have the possibility
to set the remove mailbox to forward the mail to your homeserver, where you
need to have SMTP running all the time. The use of pop3 and imap will only be
when you use a mail client, but it's really overkill as you already have the
mail on your computer.


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//Aho
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