<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> 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: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:00:59 -0700 <A HREF="mailto:wade@wadesmart.com">wade@wadesmart.com</A> 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 </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> Kind Regards Russell ================== www.windsorcycles.com.au sales@windsorcycles.com.au ph. 02 4577 3209 bikes.no-ip.info Linux user #369094 ================== </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>