Ken Moffat wrote:
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 07:42:10PM -0400, rblythe wrote:
Anyway, I have not installed these two packages yet (working my way up
to it), but I want to know if installing Postfix may wreck my current
e-mail set-up.
Undoubtedly it _may_ wreck your current mail setup. You haven't
really given enough detail for me to understand how your current
setup works, but do you actually need postfix ?
I've never used thunderbird, but if you are sending mail through
comcast's mail server, I imagine thunderbird doesn't need a local
mail server. Running postfix is very convenient, particularly if
you have multiple machines, but for a single box without a static
IP or its own proper domain it may be unnecessary.
I run postfix on my desktop boxes and 'server' so that the output
of cron jobs (backups, disk checks, etc) all ends up in my mailbox
on the server. But as far as outgoing mail is concerned, mine now
all goes through my isp's mail server. And I get external mail by
pulling it from my isp's POP server with fetchmail.
Ken
Sorry fo being so vague. This is really only an experiment to increase
my understanding. I will try to make some sense this time:
LFS/BLFS build (Blytheworks) - No e-mail is currently set-up. I have
not got that far in the compilation process yet (this is a learn as I go
proposition). I was reading the BLFS web pages on the various type of
servers and thought postfix might be cool to use once I did a little
more research and tried to understand it better. Because my host distro
is all gui based, I still consider myself a newbie when it comes to
compiling software from scratch and providing the necessary
configuration info.
This was basically a thought to do something different then what I am
used to, and try to learn something along the way.
Host System Setup (Mepis) - I use Thunderbird to get my e-mail from
Comcast without a problem. It is stored on a separate partition that I
can also access from Suse 10.0 and Windows Xp (my machine is a
multi-boot set-up). In the year I have been running this way, I have
not had any problems. Mepis is Debian based (I have the non-Ubuntu
version) and it is okay when Debian is not changing the repositories.
Because of that, I was driven once again to try and successfully build a
LFS/BLFS system from scratch. So far I have been successful and I
understand what is going on finally. I want to make the complete
transition if my own LFS/BLFS system for the freedom I believe that I
have because of it.
I think my desire may be true overkill for my situation where
Blytheworks is concerned. What I would like to try is this (please
provide alternate solutions if I am over-doing it):
I am really interested in the various servers and security applications
right now. For the mail, I wanted to install Postfix and configure it
so that it would get the e-mail from the Comcast server and download it
to a separate folder on my vfat partition. I woud then configure
Thunderbird to get the e-mail from the Postfix downloaded area so that I
could read, reply and compose new e-mails. My hope is that while using
Thunderbird, my e-mail would then be stored on the original Thunderbird
vfat partition so that if by chance I am booted into one of the other
systems, I can still read, reply, and compose e-mail messages without
messing something up.
My other reason for wanting Postfix (or any MTA) is that right now, if I
want to compose and e-mail, I have to boot back into a system with and
e-mail program on it instead of staying in my build environment. I
noticed that one of the optional packages where Lynx (my web browser of
choice until I build Firefox) is an MTA. My thinking is that with an
MTA, if I run into a compile problem or get confused about something
while learning more about BLFS, I could just compose and e-mail to
blfs-support and go on to something else until I receive a reply. My
hope also is that if this can be done, then I could download the e-mail
responses as outlined above and keep the integrity of my existing
Thunderbird e-mail box on a separate partition.
Ultimately, because this is a single user machine, I may not really need
any kind of server. I am only looking at this as a possible solution,
but again even though I have used Linux for close to two years, I am as
green as they come with this type of things (having a do-it-all distro
is not as beneficial as one might think, especially with a tinkerer like
me).
Plus in my research about Postfix, I have seen some interesting things
(spamassassin, virus protection) that I would like to learn how to use
as well.
If you have any other possible solutions please let me know. I am not
in a hurry. I am taking my time with this one.
Thanks,
rblythe
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