Wanted: simple mailer for laptop use

[Derek Broughton]

Robert Stoffers wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 00:51 -0500, 'Forum Post wrote:
>> 
>> After a fairly large amount of effort (mostly trying to find
>> instructions, and then getting the motivation to carry them out and
>> pick out what was relavent) I have an imap set up on my home LAN
>> getting pop3 from my remote webserver. I need to write down exactly
>> what I did in case I need to do it all again, and to help out anyone
>> who might be interested in doing the same thing.
> 
> I remember a piece of advice I once heard, it went something along the
> lines of:
> 
> "there is no need to run your own mail server for home use, open relays
> are bad mmmkay?"

There's all sorts of good reasons to run various servers.  In this case, an
imap server is _not_ a mail relay, and in any case it's not hard to prevent
mail misconfigurations from leaving open relays - if your firewall rules
deny connections to port 25 from external hosts, you're not likely to have
an open relay.

> There's a number of reasons for this, but accidentally running an open
> relay mail server due to some configuration error would be the biggest
> problem. Besides that, Gmail and others already to a great job, have
> free pop3 access and are available wherever you have an Internet
> connection. 

And they do a pretty pathetic job where you _don't_ have an Internet
connection.  

I like to run an IMAP server on my laptop which collects all mail from my
ISPs, and the mail is then available whenever I want it on either the
laptop or the desktop when I'm at work.
-- 
derek