Postfix Install

[ruscook]

Hi John,

Fetchmail, will as it says fetchmail from your online pop acounts and
deliver them to local accounts on you system (so you can consolidate
email).  Postfix is what fetchmail uses to deliver the mail to your
local mailbox.

Dovecot provides a daemon to do POP or IMAP access to that mail. I
heartily recommend IMAP.  I have a server which receives the mail. My
desktop and my wife's desktop are both setup with IMAP capable email
clients. Therefore we can each access our consolidated mail (including
sent folder) from either machine. This is not possible with POP
accounts.

Using IMAP means my wife's dual boot windows/ubuntu and my dedicated
ubuntu can all access the same mail accounts/data store. And from a
variety of programs. I readily use evolution and thunderbird as they can
both access the same mail. It gives great flexibility.  As I also run a
webserver on the mail server, I run Squirrelmail, which is IMAP capable,
and can therefore access my mail from virtually anywhere in the world.

I'm not an expert by any means and this and still fine tune from time to
time.

One area I'm not 100% happy with is I let fetchmail "leave mail on
server" for most of my accounts. I would, periodically, like it to
delete this mail so the POP process is not too long. Without
re-downloading this mail I don't know how to achieve this.


On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 15:16 +0100, John French wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:00:59 -0700
> wade at wadesmart.com wrote :
> 
> I have set up a seperate /home directory and I want to pull mail in form
> my ISP and then store it in maildirs. I found a tutorial on how to do
> this with postfix and dovecot.
> 
> wade
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I have been working on the same problem. My wife and I have about 6
> e-mail addresses, with 3 ISP's, and I would like to gather them into one
> mail server, and store them in appropriate mailboxes, for access from
> around the network - and maybe, later, from outside.
> 
> The howtos are not too clear, but I think I can do this with Postfix and
> Fetchmail. I am not too sure what Dovecot would also provide, that we
> would need. Advice, please.
> 
> John French
> 
> 
> 

Kind Regards Russell
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